in reply to Why is (keys ::) legal syntax?

Building upon what tye said, I've known about this for a while:
push me, harder; pop goes_the_weasel; shift yeyes; # etc.
It's legacy support from before Perl 5. It's icky, but it's excellent for poetry mode.

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