Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.