When I run the following code: 
#!d:/perl/bin -w

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use File::Find;

@ARGV = ();
find sub {
  push @ARGV, $File::Find::name if (/\.pl$/ and (-M < 1.0));
}, "d:/perl";

$,="\n";
print @ARGV;

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I get this:

Warning: Use of "-M" without parens is ambiguous at ft.pl line 11. Unterminated <> operator at ft.pl line 9 (#1) (F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". Uncaught exception from user code: Unterminated <> operator at ft.pl line 9.

After a lot of trial and error, I found that the only way I could get it to work was by changing the file test part to (1.0 > -M).
Is there a way to write the above code so that I can keep the (-m < 1.0) part?

In reply to -M file test problem by perlmoth

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