I think it has to do with the start of your file. If you say 'use v6;' - which I don't think is necessary in pugs right now - that defaults to strict. However, if you say 'v6' without the 'use', then that isn't strict, so you would be able to do what you want to do. I believe those are the rules in the perl6 language. However, as far as I know, pugs is just automatically in strict mode, no matter what you do.

    -Bryan