The change has occurred because qw() no longer becomes split ' ', q() at compile-time. The reason for that was because qw() in scalar context was splitting to @_ and returning the number of elements (which is probably less than good). So now, qw() is turned into a physical list at compile-time. That means your code is:

foreach my $value (('a', 'b', 'c')) {
  $value .= '1';
  print "$value\n";
}
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So you're trying to modify constants. Note, also, that now you can directly subscript a qw(), or use it in a for statement without surrounding parentheses:

$vowel = qw( a e i o u )[ rand 5 ];

for qw( a e i o u ) {
  # ...
}
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Weird looking, eh?

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