Do these regular calls to the Perl routines?

Question

I'm still trying to understand the features of Perl OOP. I'm confused by something if I have a subroutine call like:

My::Package::sub_name($param1,$param2)

Will this get "My :: Package" as the first parameter? I would say no, but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

Why don't you just give it a try?

Spoiler warning:

No, the first parameter will not be the package name.

However, when you do this:

My::Package->sub_name( $param1, $param2 )

you will get the package / class name as the first parameter.

Answer 2

( ) -> operator, invocant @_ ( invocant - ). :: @_.

Geo, -:)

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