On Jul 23, 2012, at 7:42 PM, Trans <transfire / gmail.com> wrote: > why not deprecate __END__? Is there some really > important use case that we just can't live without? The whole idea strikes= me as rather hackish, especially considering it is limited to main file. I infrequently use __END__ for single-file scripts. It's easier to transport= a single file with embedded data than two or more files.=