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in reply to Non-traditional, Line by Line Compilation in Perl

I do not think you are correct. 
    $  (echo '};'; echo '{};'; echo '};') | perl -c
    Unmatched right curly bracket at - line 1, at end of line
    syntax error at - line 1, near "}"
    Unmatched right curly bracket at - line 3, at end of line
    syntax error at - line 3, near "}"
    - had compilation errors.
    $

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Parsing did not stop at finding the first syntax error.

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