I wouldn't still agree on the point a) I can run it the way I have written it without having created any "File::Path" directory. Something like that will work without problem:

for (@list) {
  File::Path->make_path($path);
}
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The problem strikes when I have to chdir into that directory to do something there, like create a file but that's not even necessary. This piece of code creates me the mentioned "File::Path" subdirectory compared to the above :

for (@list) {
  File::Path->make_path($path);
  chdir $path or die "Cannot chdir: $!";
}
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