Why does

 1    #!perl
 2    # Utility vars
 3    
 4    my $foo="Hello there"
 5    
 6    # End utility vars. When do we make these go away?
 7    
 8    ######################################################
 9    # We loop over each character and print them out
10    # this is mostly so that we can do the fnorzle with
11    # boopat over the dulwhup. Which can really pjorn your
12    # noodle
13    
14    
15    for my $i (0.. length($foo)-1) {
16        print "$i ",substr($foo,$i,1),"\n";
17    }
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produce the following error

syntax error at D:\perl\scratch\errors.pl line 15, near "$i ("
Execution of D:\perl\scratch\errors.pl aborted due to compilation erro
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I dont see why this doesn't produce something more intelligent. My general rule for perl errors is that if I don't see the problem immediately on the line that perl tells me I look on the one before, and as the contrived example shows here that can be quite a ways before.

:-)