After a somewhat exhaustive search (please forgive me if I've missed a relevant post here or elsewhere--please direct me to 'em) I've yet to find an answer to this troubling philosophical question:

Why does use strict only check barewords?

Allow me to demonstrate my confusion.

use strict;
sub This::Does::Not::Fail { };

This::Does::Not::Fail;                 # rightly so
This::Will::Fail;                      # as we expect
It::Bothers::Me::That::This::Works (); # wassup with THAT?!
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I'm confused why subs with an argument list (even an empty one) should cause a non-existent sub to be ignored by strict. Could the great Monks please enlighten me?

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