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in reply to Why use strict is good, and barewords are bad

Without checking the other three replies, I think I know why.

because of oct()


It appears I'm right :)




"2b"||!"2b";$$_="the question"
Besides that, my code is untested unless stated otherwise.
One more: please review the article about regular expressions (do's and don'ts) I'm working on.