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> $ perl -lwe 'sub pie {print 0 + "pie"}; pie; pie;'
> Argument "pie" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.
> 0
> 0
>
> So is this a bug? Advice from Klortho #11943 suggests not:
>
> #11943 Ah yes, and you are the first person to have noticed this bug since 1987. Sure.
>
> but is it right, or am I?
>
> Nicholas Clark
>
While generating a warning at each run is more correct, it doesn't
really give the user more useful information about the problem. On the
contrary, correcting this would generate a lot of similar warnings at
the expense of more checks. I'd be for just letting the things in this
state.
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