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in reply to Difference between my ($foo) & my $foo

With:
my (undef, $a, undef, $b, @rest, $c) = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8);

Now:
Then:
my $count = @rest; # 4 - because there are four items (scalar contex +t) my ($first) = @rest; # 5 - because first item is 5 (list context)

But:
my $last = (11, 22, 33, 999); # 999 - because assigning LIST to scalar + only picks last item