Well, since it doesn't work under strict, you can safely drop: 
$n=0;

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that's another 5 chars.

Also, put pop@n in a sub at the beginning: 

sub p{pop@n}

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then replace: 
pop@n => p

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throughout. another 20 chars saved. 
sub w{push@n,$_[0]}sub p{pop@n}map{push@L,@C+0;push@C,split//,lc}<>;wh
+ile($n<@C){$_=$C[$n++];if(/n/){$0=0;/-/ or$0=$_+$0*7while($_=index"ht
+aoinse",$C[$n++])<7;w$0}if(/t/){$_=p@n;$_?$n=$L[$_-1]:last if p@n}/a/
+&&push@n,1+grep$n>$_,@L;if(/h/){$_=p@n;$n[$#n-abs];$_>0&&splice@n,@n-
+2-$_,1}/o/&&print+chr(p@n);/s/&w-(p@n)+p@n;$0=p@n,$_=p@n,w(int$_/$0),
+$_%$0if/e/;w($_=getc)?ord:-1if/i/}

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cLive ;-)

Update - d'oh, yep, another 16 chars saved by changing p@n to p (updated above) - that means we can also save another 10 chars by whacking push@n,'whatever' into a sub.

What's that now? 379 chars?

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In reply to Re: Is Perl less compact than Ruby? (Kind of competition) by cLive ;-)
in thread Is Perl less compact than Ruby? (Kind of competition) by locked_user mtve

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