Unquoted strings with strict

robin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

You can assign an unquoted string to a variable, even when strict mode is on, like this:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $foo = hello =>;
print $foo;
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(This is more of an obfuscation than a request for enlightenment, but the Obfuscated code section seems to be reserved for complete obfuscated programs. Sorry if this is in the wrong place.)

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