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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:00:53PM -0800, Chad Granum wrote:
> I can think of one place where people may be accidentally using this, and
> that is in import arguments to packages that also turn on 'strict' and
> 'warnings' for you.
>
> use Foo xxx, yyy, -foo;
>
> If you use strict and warnings before that then it will fail. However if
> that turns on strict and warnings like Moose and many other packages these
> days then it will work fine, and do what you expect (stringify the
> barewords).
>
> I am not making a judgement call on weather people SHOULD or SHOULD NOT do
> this. However I have seen it done, and discovered it when I realized I had
> accidentally been doing it in a few places.
Here's another accidental way:
$ perl -le '$x = 'foo'; print $x'
Abigail
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