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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by glofish on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:51AM (#20836229)
I think there are a couple of neat examples there:

  lerzfijglpFiji-j

  -*?
plus I learned about the "unquoted string" feature that is the reason why the joke works

also, the writing is quite entertaining.

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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by Grinnz on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:06PM (#20840441)
It's not so much a feature as how really old versions of Perl worked. Any program using strict doesn't allow it unless it's a known subroutine name, built-in or other symbol.

Except in certain cases because back-compat is complicated.

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