From The RT System itself

The following struck me as kindof inconsistent​:

$ perl -cwe 'use strict; use integer; foo(-bar => "baz");'
Argument "bar" isn't numeric in i_negate at -e line 1.

$ perl -cwe 'use strict; foo(-bar => "baz");'
$ # no such warning

The former doesn't make much sense 'cause Perl should know that the thing
on the left-hand side of => isn't required to be a number.

Lot of code (for example, heaps of examples in the CGI documentation) thus
fails under "use integer". That's a Bad Thing, IMHO.

I'd fix it myself, but I'm not familiar enough with Perl's innards. :-(

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@iabyn - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'resolved'