in reply to Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run
As others have explained, this syntax is no longer supported. This should be reported via perlbug so that the perlretut docs can be fixed. I will try to do this soon, unless someone beats me to it.
UPDATED (2018 may 3): I submitted this as a perlbug.
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