Surely it's not a terrible burden to have to put parentheses around the stuff you are assigning to the array.

Then do.

I don't because it's unnecessary. Except for slicing the values returned from a function and creating a one-element lvalue list, I cannot think of a case where parentheses create lists. (I can also argue that in the former case, they don't either; they just mark a context.)

Put another way, if there are no precedence issues, why do you need to group a one-element list explicitly?

I think that's skirting my main issue, though. Namely, I find it troublesome that it makes such a simple mistake so eminently possible. The fact that you have two ways of saying something and one of those two ways is extremely close to a totally different semantic meaning is just asking for trouble.

Does the parenthesis in (EXPR) x EXPR create a list (in list context)?

ihb

See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!

It creates list context for the x operator, which causes a list to be created.

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