Re: Why doesn't Perl complain about this bareword?

Ronny <ro.naldfi.scher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
By chance I found out that no error is issued on the following
program:

perl -w -e 'use strict; print(Does::Not::Exist,"\n")'

Instead, "Does::Not::Exist" is printed. Shouldn't there be a warning
about
the improper use of a bareword?

It seems to be a bug in Perl.
.

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