in reply to Perl and the magic of the perl compiler

Quoth the perlsyn:
Any simple statement may optionally be followed by a SINGLE modifier, just before the terminating semicolon (or block ending). The possible modifiers are:
if EXPR unless EXPR while EXPR until EXPR foreach EXPR
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