Yes I understand now. For some reason I missed the missing quotes in the original post and the word token came to mind.
$ perl -MO=Deparse foo.plx BEGIN { $^W = 1; } use diagnostics; sub abc { use warnings; use strict 'refs'; 'abc.'; } sub eeeee { use warnings; use strict 'refs'; 'eeeee.'; } sub i { use warnings; use strict 'refs'; 'i'; } use warnings; use strict 'refs'; $_ = abc() . eeeee() . i(); print "$_\n"; foo.plx syntax OK ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/