much: do ~0; compiles and runs and appears to do nothin with my perl. require ~0; however, produces this error:

Perl v4294967295.0.0 required (did you mean v4294967295.000?)--this is
+ only v5.8.5, stopped at -e line 1.
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To supress this message, try adding use integer; before the statement. :)