[ateague@dingbat mod]$ perl -MData::Dumper -E '$b = [qw/1 2 3 4 5/]; $a = $b; say Dumper $a;'
$VAR1 = [
          '1',
          '2',
          '3',
          '4',
          '5'
        ];

[ateague@dingbat mod]$ perl -MData::Dumper -E '$b = [qw/1 2 3 4 5/]; $a = qq|$b|; say Dumper $a;'
$VAR1 = 'ARRAY(0x12609e4)';