Quite true. But then again, one would need to be insane to actually do something like this and expect it to behave nicely. And short of kidnapping Dominus and forcing him to patch and recompile your version of perl, its the next best thing. And I quote myself:

Of course, no one in their right mind would do such a thing. No no,.. never,... never ever,.. no ,.. stop,.. dont make me,.. nooooooooooo......