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Update: and here's an answer for 8, although you might take it as cheating as it requires an adittional option on the command line to be set.

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Update: you can give the switch in the shebang line too. If you write this to a file and execute it with perl, it works.

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Re^2: How's your Perl? (II)
by wog (Curate) on Jul 22, 2004 at 19:37 UTC
    You don't need any switches! 

    BEGIN{$^P=0x22;sub DB::DB{++$foo==2 and die}}

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    (I am pretty sure that is not the official solution, by the way, and it means that 8 does not need to exploit actual bugs.)

    updated: Oops, copied a wrong version initially. One character difference.

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