Based on perlop , the terany operator (?:) is just one precidence level above the "operate and set" operators .=, +=, etc.

Thus, perl is seeing:

print ($x ? $x.="hello" : $x.="Bye");
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as

print (  ( $x ? $x.="hello" : $x ) .="Bye");
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and not as

print ( $x ? $x.="hello" : ( $x.="Bye" ) );
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The solution is, therefore, to use the last form to get it the way you want.

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