Fact: This has nothing to do with ANY variables, it is the way warn() is designed.
Trivia:
Did you know that $! does NOT contain an error string. It contains the error *number*. The only reason you see a error sting is that it has an overloaded stringification operator that calls strerror() on the numeric value that it contains.
# assuming the file 'foo' does not exist in current directory.
perl -e 'open FOO,"foo" or print $!+0' => 2
perl -MPOSIX -e 'open FOO,"foo";print strerror $!+0' => No such file or directory
Randy.
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