:)

I tried your example just to see what happens, but i can't find any strange behaviour.

so a taxi is on its way down the road driver asks passanger, where now?

passanger says BANANA, and the cars wheel is replaced with a BANANA, and they crash and burn.

Thats not strange? that is a feature to look for in a taxi?

Same same

#!/usr/bin/perl --
#~ use strict;
#~ use warnings;
use CGI;
my $query = CGI->new( { 'query; system q{echo deleting files}; $query 
+', 'BANANA', 'z','z' } );
my @names = $query->param;
for( @names ){
    $val = $query->param($_);
    eval "\$$_ = '$val';" or warn $@;
}
__END__
deleting files
Can't locate object method "param" via package "BANANA" (perhaps you f
+orgot to load "BANANA"?) at - line 8.
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Whoops, all the messages are lost ... is the data important? worth money?

Red flags are red, where there is one, there are more ...