G'day John,

Look very carefully at the double-quotes in the code that you posted.

Compare:

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -le 'my $x = []; print ref($x) eq "ARRAY" ?
+ q{aref} : q{other}'
aref
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with:

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -le 'my $x = []; print ref($x) eq “ARRAY” ?
+ q{aref} : q{other}'
Unrecognized character \xE2; marked by <-- HERE after ef($x) eq <-- HE
+RE near column 30 at -e line 1.
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Perhaps the editor you're using has some sort of auto-correct or smart-quote mechanism configured.