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A package statement is not supposed to be required to have a
package. This is so you are forced to fully qualify things,
which makes it stricter than strict:
% perl5.8.8 -e 'package; $main::x = 1'
% perl5.10.0 -e 'package; $main::x = 1'
syntax error at -e line 1, near "package;"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
Exit 255
Huh? There's no syntax error there.
There is nothing in the perl5100delta manpage about this.
What happened? Did somebody kill it by mistake?
--tom
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