"I bet you are using Win32" and "This won't happen on Unix".

Yep. And I thought not.

I think you would have been much happier if you'd seen ..... if it also reported $^E

Double yep. I would have probably figured this one out immediately if any of your above suggestions had been implemented.

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_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}