Interesting effect. For the record, it works on ActiveState Perl, not only under cygwin but even in the WinMe command prompt.

$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/
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