Did you try running that? [13:06:36] ~$perl -e 'whatever / 25 ; die "this dies!";' this dies! at -e line 1. [13:06:36] ~$ [13:06:38] ~$perl -e "use st

Did you try running that? [13:06:36] ~$perl -e 'whatever / 25 ; die "this dies!";' this dies! at -e line 1. [13:06:36] ~$ [13:06:38] ~$perl -e "use strict; use warnings; whatever / 25 ; die "this dies!";" Useless use of division (/) in void context at -e line 1. Bareword "whatever" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1. Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. [13:06:38] ~$ After removing the comment the former parses just fine and died with "this dies!". The latter parsed and found a syntax error.