Off the top of my head, the only place strict Perl allows a bareword is the left-hand side of the => fat comma operator and pre-declared subroutines (IIRC, I ne

Off the top of my head, the only place strict Perl allows a bareword is the left-hand side of the => fat comma operator and pre-declared subroutines (IIRC, I never could quite remember the rules for that).