in reply to /HTML is valid perl?

To Perl, <HTML> looks like a line-read from the filehandle HTML. However, if you have something that isn't a filehandle (or a variable holding a filehandle) in there, Perl sees it as a file glob. </HTML> is the glob /HTML. Even something as simple as whitespace (as shown below) triggers this distinction.

Here's some fiendish Perl: 

<perl >;
<head type="pragma">;
use strict;
</head >;
<body >;

my $name = "japhy";
my $code = "evil";
my $reasons = "plenty";

</perl >;

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;

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