Hola Monks,
I've been pulling my hair out for quite a while(more time than I want to admit) trying to figure out why this:

use strict;
$a++;
print $a;
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actually prints "1", when it *thought* it should give a compile-time error for not declaring $a. I felt as though I had witnessed the impossibe. For a while there I was questioning my entire existence, and my world was about to collapse since everything I've ever known to be real and true suddenly was not.

I still don't know what the problem is, but my fears were alleviated when I expanded my minimalist test case to this:

use strict;
$aaa++;
print $aaa;
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...and this works like it should, dying a horrible, miserable death.

So whats the deal? Anyone know why single character variable names slip through the cracks under the use strict pragma?? Or am I not seeing something?

Thanks!

John