It looks like the bug/feature question is finally settled, solidly on the "bug" side.
This p5p summary refers to this thread where Dave Mitchell submits a patch to make it warn deprecated, and exposes a lot of odd code in the process...
In reply to Re: Unusual Closure Behaviour
by RMGir
in thread Unusual Closure Behaviour
by tachyon
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