Because people build bridges and ladders out of rope, Perl has a history of giving the programmers plenty of rope to hang themselves. This is construed as a fe

Because people build bridges and ladders out of rope, Perl has a history of giving the programmers plenty of rope to hang themselves. This is construed as a feature. The good news is that even if such craziness exists in other people's code, it's lexically scoped, and does not contaminate your own code. I'm just enjoying the fact that even Perl 6's detractors realize how powerful the language is.