[perl #119805] Errors in preamble code report line 0

On Mon Sep 16 15:42:03 2013, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
> * Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-comment@perl.org> [2013-09-
> 16T12:59:00]
> > Or we could special-case line 0 to say ‘in preamble’, which sounds
> > better than ‘at preamble line 0’ or ‘at preamble’.
> 
> Yes, this would be good.

Simply tacking on ‘in preamble’ when the line number is 0 is not so helpful.  My first attempt at this gives the following:

$ ./perl -b
Unrecognized switch: -b  (-h will show valid options) in preamble.

That’s just weird.

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Father Chrysostomos

• [perl #119805] Errors in preamble code report line 0 by Father Chrysostomos via RT