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Why should $main::{$softref} become subject to stricture? After all, it is an obviously intentional symbolic lookup. If you forbid it, Object->$methodname() would have logically to be forbidden as well, wouldn't it? In fact, Object->method() is a symbolic lookup on a bareword; now things get tricky..

Makeshifts last the longest.

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