strange branch (Re: [perl.git] branch ->$#splat, created.v5.19.6-29-gc323257)

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:37:57AM +0100, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> In perl.git, the branch ->$#splat has been created
> 
> <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/c323257246b49fc641ab7c29554902d69c0dd69d?hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000>
> 
>         at  c323257246b49fc641ab7c29554902d69c0dd69d (commit)
> 
> - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> commit c323257246b49fc641ab7c29554902d69c0dd69d
> Author: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
> Date:   Sat Nov 23 21:31:24 2013 -0800
> 
>     ->$#*
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Was creation of this strangely named branch at the top level
deliberate?

Tony

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