On Sun May 22 21:03:02 2011, sprout wrote: > $ perl5.14.0 -MO=Deparse -e 'open "CORE::foo", "bar"' > open CORE::foo, 'bar'; > -e syntax OK > > That’s a syntax error It’s even worse than I thought: $ perl5.14.0 -MO=Deparse -e 'open q"#@$@!$2", "bar"' open #@$@!$2, 'bar'; -e syntax OK