in reply to Re^2: Explanation of Perlop Documention
in thread Explanation of Perlop Documention

That's because in the Perl 5.8.6 Pod source for perlop (http://search.cpan.org/src/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.6/pod/perlop.pod) the C<...> tags are missing, i.e.
One effect of these rules is that -bareword is equivalent to "-bareword".

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