in reply to very 1st question for my baby-walk coding

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.

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