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Not to be the party pooper (I do appreciate the joke), but shouldn't that have been in the Acme namespace?

Yes and no. Yes, because it is a nonsense module. But it is documented properly (it is technically correct) and there is not much chance someone doesn't notice this is a joke. It even has unit tests (well, one test and 1233 unconditional "ok"s :).

Besides that, the module will of course be deleted from CPAN tomorrow. 

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by Pardus (Pilgrim) on Apr 02, 2003 at 00:13 UTC
    Hmmm - I like it -- when can we expect Gtk::BlueScreen ?

    btw does it also work when using die $! instead of die "$!" ?
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      Under the Patriot act, it is now illegal to refer to The Red, White, and Blue screen as that which you referred to it as.

      See you soon.

      - The Department of Homeland Security.

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      No, it does not work outside of double quotes. This is documented.

      The actual reason for this is that it is very hard to parse Perl code. I could have used code => sub { s/\$!/'Unknown error'/g }, but guess what that would have done with print q!$$!;.

      I worked around this by making a feature out of this lack of feature. To learn about the details, please read the documentation. You have approximately 70 hours left before it is deleted from CPAN. 

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