(Thanks to everyone for their comments, and especially to Damian for pointing me at the right bit of the manual.)
Damian quoted the perlop manpage: > If the operand is an identifier, a string consisting of a minus > sign concatenated with the identifier is returned. Nick wrote: >>> But barewords are not allowed under strict. So why is -bareword >>> being allowed? Damian wrote: >> Because it's not a bareword. ;-) Nick wrote: > I think it's bad documentation - that last sentence should not use the > identifier 'bareword' as its example identifier. I think that's the point of using that identifier - that something which would otherwise be a bareword is magically de-bareworded by the '-'. Kake -- http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan recipes, now with new search feature http://grault.net/grubstreet/ - the open-source guide to London http://www.penseroso.com/ - websites for the fine art and antique trade
