$ ./miniperl -DT -ce '*$x' ### 0:LEX_NORMAL/XSTATE "\n;" ### <== '*' ### 1:LEX_NORMAL/XREF "$x\n" ### Pending identifier '' ### <== WORD(opval=op_const) PV(""\0) ### 1:LEX_NORMAL/XREF "$x\n" ### <== '$' ### 1:LEX_NORMAL/XOPERATOR ";" ### Pending identifier '$x' ### <== WORD(opval=op_const) PV("x"\0) ### 1:LEX_NORMAL/XOPERATOR ";" ### <== ';' ### 1:LEX_NORMAL/XSTATE "" ### Tokener got EOF ### <== EOF syntax error at -e line 1, next char $ -e had compilation errors.