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in thread my $1

Baah, this gives me creeps.
Does this give you also the creeps?
$ perl -e 'for $x (1 .. 9) {$x = 2; foo ()} sub foo {print $x}' 222222222 $ perl -e 'for $x (1 .. 9) {my $x = 2; foo ()} sub foo {print $x}' 123456789
Or is it the fact that Perl just got a little bit more regular that creeps you out?