On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:58:51PM +0100, Richard Foley wrote: [...] > Go on, put us out of our misery. "-M:DProf" puts "use: DProf;" at the start of the script. This is a label followed by a bareword, and because there's no strict, that's acceptable to the interpreter. It doesn't have to be a bareword either: perl -M:die="Just Another Perl Hacker" -e0