The keys of the hash are defined:
lorien:~$ perl -le 'print %!' EBADR0ENOMSG0ENOTSUP0ESTRPIPE0EADDRINUSE0EL3HLT0EBADF0ENAVAIL0ECHRNG0E +NOTBLK0ENOTNAM0ELNRNG0EXDEV0EBADE0EBADSLT0ECONNREFUSED0ENOSTR0EISCONN +0EOVERFLOW0ENONET0EFBIG0ECONNRESET0ELIBMAX0EWOULDBLOCK0EREMOTEIO0ENOP +KG0ELIBSCN0EMEDIUMTYPE0EDESTADDRREQ0ENOTSOCK0EIO0EINPROGRESS0ERANGE0E +ADDRNOTAVAIL0EAFNOSUPPORT0EINTR0EILSEQ0EREMOTE0ENOMEM0ENETUNREACH0EPI +PE0ENODATA0EUSERS0EOPNOTSUPP0EPROTO0EISNAM0ESPIPE0EALREADY0ENAMETOOLO +NG0ENOEXEC0EISDIR0EBADRQC0EEXIST0EDOTDOT0ELIBBAD0ESRCH0EFAULT0EAGAIN0 +EDEADLOCK0EXFULL0ENOPROTOOPT0ENETDOWN0EPROTOTYPE0EL2NSYNC0ENETRESET0E +ADV0EUCLEAN0EROFS0ESHUTDOWN0EMULTIHOP0EPROTONOSUPPORT0ENFILE0ENOLCK0E +CONNABORTED0ECANCELED0EDEADLK0ENOLINK0ESRMNT0ENOTDIR0ETIME0EINVAL0ENO +TTY0ENOANO0ELOOP0ENOENT0EPFNOSUPPORT0EBADMSG0ENOMEDIUM0EL2HLT0EDOM0EB +FONT0EMSGSIZE0ENOCSI0EL3RST0ENOSPC0EIDRM0ENOBUFS0ENOSYS0EHOSTDOWN0EBA +DFD0ENOSR0ENOTCONN0ESTALE0EDQUOT0EMFILE0EACCES0EBUSY0EPERM0E2BIG0ELIB +EXEC0ETOOMANYREFS0ELIBACC0ENOTUNIQ0ECOMM0ERESTART0EUNATCH0ESOCKTNOSUP +PORT0ETIMEDOUT0ENXIO0ETXTBSY0ENODEV0EMLINK0ECHILD0EHOSTUNREACH0EREMCH +G0ENOTEMPTY0

Update:
lorien:~$ perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
Well its just for fun when i read in perlvar about %! and the last news about sendmail and bind it just comes to my head, ode to sendmail and bind here it is.
$anarion=\$anarion;

s==q^QBY_^=,$_^=$[x7,print

In reply to Re: Re: special magic in "%!" ? by Anarion
in thread special magic in "%!" ? by Anarion

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