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diff --git a/pod/perlobj.pod b/pod/perlobj.pod index 6d335e5410..fdecd84a68 100644 --- a/pod/perlobj.pod +++ b/pod/perlobj.pod @@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ Usually Perl gets it right, but when it doesn't you get a function call compiled as a method, or vice versa. This can introduce subtle bugs that are hard to detect. -For example, a call to a method C<new> in indirect notation -- as C++ -programmers are wont to make -- can be miscompiled into a subroutine +For example, a call to a method C<new> in indirect notation (as C++ +programmers are wont to make) can be miscompiled into a subroutine call if there's already a C<new> function in scope. You'd end up calling the current package's C<new> as a subroutine, rather than the desired class's method. The compiler tries to cheat by remembering |