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According to Larry Wall:
> If, by the time the entire program is parsed, nobody has said they
> want to extend an interface, then the interface can be considered
> closed.

What with C<eval STRING> and its various wrappers, when can the program
be said to be fully parsed?  <- anticipating "Mu"
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