Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Fri 07/23/2021 20:17:49 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -l { no strict 'refs'; ${'@-%^#$!+'} = 'Yikes!'; print ${'@-%^#$!+'}; } print "%main:: $main::{'@-%^#$!+'}"; ^Z Yikes! %main:: *main::@-%^#$!+