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in reply to Increment avoids warning unexpectedly

The autoincremenet operator is "magical", see perlman:perlop for more details. Try adding the following code to your test program to see the magic at work:
$m="acb"; print ++$m; # Prints acc, as expected (according to perlop) # and throws no warning ... wierd huh?