Bleargh!

• Don't get the impression that Pugs is a pile of mud because of this "feature"

• To do it right, we'd need to support lexical import, which is a new feature in Perl 6

• A deliberate makeshift that let us act as users of Perl would before we had that much of perl available

• Good enough in many cases
• for example, writing 8,000 tests for other things!