On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:26:17PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:24:13PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > > >From E3: > > > > The doubling also helps it stand out better in code, in part > > because it forces you to put space around the C<::> so that it's > > not confused with a package name separator. > > And package::subroutine should go the way of package`subroutine as > package.subroutine will work and become the preferred method :), no?
I don't think so. package::subroutine will explicitly call package::subroutine, but package.subroutine is calling a method on the package, so it would do an ISA search etc. Graham.
