[Israel.pm] package/sub ambiguity

[Shmuel Fomberg]

Hi All.

Here is what I had:
a package (object) named Repeater and a sub named Repeater.
when I tried to create a new Repeater, I did:
$r = Repeater->create(...);
and got unexpected results.
After thinking a bit about it, I found out that instead of running the 
create method in the Repeater package, it instead run the Repeater sub, 
and tried to run create on the result.

meaning, I actually got:
$r = (&Repeater())->create(...);

A way to resolve that was to write:
$r = "Repeater"->create(...);
a probably better way to resolve this is not creating packages and subs 
with the same names.

Any advice from the community? I actually liked the sub-package name 
duality.

Thanks,
Shmuel.