sorry but is this unknown TextMate masking the error?
And why it is reporting about
Carp::Heavy?
The empty assignement must be the error:
C:\SCRIPTS>perl -e "use strict; use warnings; my ($a)=;"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "=;"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
L*
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