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in reply to Use B::Deparse to see why
in thread Surprising whitespace behavior

probably lies in the fact that @-interpolation is a quite new invention (5.6 AFAICR).
Oh, you young'uns. {grin}

@-interpolation in a string dates back to Perl version 5.000. It's the reason that you get the fatal error when you have something like "merlyn@stonehenge.com".

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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