On Jul 20, 6:09 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote:
> On 11-07-20 07:03 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> > the other is a class method call. it has two major differences. first it
> > will pass its class (or object, the arg before ->) as the first arg in
> > the call. the second thing is that it will search the class hierarchy
> > (using the package global's @ISA) to find that method if it isn't in the
> > Lib class.
>
> ...
>
> The difference here is that `Foo:bar()` gives a run-time error; where
> `Foo->bar()` gives a compile-time error.
> ...
An INIT{} which executes just after compilation can help
pinpoint when runtime starts:
....
INIT { print "runtime starting...\n"; }
__END__
runtime starting...
foo
foo
Undefined subroutine &Foo::bar called ....
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