[Milan-pm] Perl bug?

[Max M]

Trying to fix a strange behaviour in a script of mine, I found out
something very much resembling a bug.

The following code dies (either under perl 5.10 or 5.8).

        "a" =~ /./;   # [1]

        if ( not  "" =~ // ) {
            die "bug????"
        }

If line [1] is commented out, it no longer dies.

Max