Which version are you using?
Looks like you should upgrade ...
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall
[SNIP]
$ perl -le '$_ = ($x) = (4, 5, 6); print'
3
$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -le '$_ = ($x) = (4, 5, 6); print'
BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = "\n"; }
($_ = (($x) = (4, 5, 6)));
print($_);
-e syntax OK
$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -le '$_ = ($x) = (4, 5, 6); print' | perl
-e syntax OK
3
See also Parsing of subscript separator in B::Deparse for another Deparse case.
HTH
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