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/HTML is valid perl?
To Perl, <HTML> looks like a line-read from the filehandle HTML. However, if you have something that isn't a filehandle (or a variable holding a filehandle) in there, Perl sees it as a file glob. </HTML> is the glob /HTML. Even something as simple as whitespace (as shown below) triggers this distinction.
Here's some fiendish Perl:
<perl >;
<head type="pragma">;
use strict;
</head >;
<body >;
my $name = "japhy";
my $code = "evil";
my $reasons = "plenty";
</perl >;
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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan:
Perl,
regex,
and perl
hacker.
s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;
