Why is this program valid? I was trying to create a syntax error

I'm running ActiveState's 32 bit ActivePerl 5.14.2 on Windows 7. I wanted to mess around with a Git pre-commit hook to detect programs being checked in with syntax errors. (Somehow I just managed to do such a bad commit.) So as a test program I randomly jotted this: use strict; use warnings; Syntax error! exit 0; However, it compiles and executes with no warnings, and errorlevel is zero on exit. H

[tsucchi1022]

おもしろい。これでコンパイル通るなんて

[Itisango]

Perl怖い。

[riywo]

へぇぇぇ