Well, one thing I was trying to do was be sure I could emulate anything I did from the shell with Perl's system command. Because the manpage did not shed any light on the distinction you just mentioned, I thought I would ask here.

Secondarily, and more specific to my problem at hand, we have an age-old Perl script where the guy hand-fashioned the command-line interface. When you want to send a list of args to an option, you do so like this:

perl5 old-crusty-program.pl -f"arg1 arg2 arg3"
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