On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 05:24:28 -0700, jkeenan wrote: > > If we accept the patch, then this becomes a feature which we have to > support going forward. Do we want to do that? Should we? > My understanding of many of the command-line operators like -p, -n, -e and others is that they basically construct a string that ends up being eval'ed. This is a particularly stable part of Perl. This powers the Eskimo Greeting secret operator `}{` and makes weird things like `perl -pe '11..&'` (exposed back in 2001) still work today. https://metacpan.org/pod/perlsecret#Eskimo-greeting https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2001/12/msg813.html http://web.archive.org/web/20020715001632/http://use.perl.org/~pdcawley/journal/1474 -- BooK --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133961