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in reply to Re: When is => ne , (warning rather arcane and possibly totally useless)
in thread When is => ne , (warning rather arcane and possibly totally useless)

I agree. When the string is made explicit, it does not change the result: 

perl -MO=Deparse -e "'use', 'strict'"
'???', '???';
-e syntax OK

perl -MO=Deparse -e "'use'=> 'strict'"
'???', '???';
-e syntax OK

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