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in reply to $:: is used

$:
The current set of characters after which a string may be broken to fill continuation fields (starting with ^) in a format. Default is " \n-", to break on whitespace or hyphens. (Mnemonic: a "colon" in poetry is a part of a line.)

See perldoc

allan

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Re^2: $:: is used
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2008 at 06:23 UTC 
    perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e"die $::"
die($main::);
-e syntax OK

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    $::foo is $main::foo
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