I understand the philosophy of perl in this respect, and in many cases I am in favour of it, but only when the rope has a useful purpose beside hanging me:)

I don't yet have enough long-term experience of Perl or the internals to know if there is a useful (if obscure) purpose in allowing blessing into these weird package spaces, and thought to utilise Abigails greater experience to short-circuit that learning curve.

I cannot think of one and felt, as I implied in the original post, that there was "nothing to worry about", but I've been bitten by that feeling before only to be shown the errors of my limited vision (usually by Abigail!).

It's my opinion that if this particular piece of rope has no useful purpose, then I can see no particular reason for leaving it lying around. It doesn't seem (from my cursory inspections of the source) that it wouldn't be a difficult task to coil this particular loose end. I'd even be prepared to have a go at doing it, once I was convinced that there was no such useful purpose. I think tyes earlier reply to you indicates that he feels the same, but that is an interpretation.