Yes indeed; but I would advise you to keep a sort of mental asterisk by these topics. In my experience, when Perl seems to be doing something strange, more often than not it’s because I’ve overlooked either context or autovivification.

Which reminds me: you don’t mention debugging strategies, which you will need as you start to experiment with what you’re learning. Be sure to bookmark:

• Basic debugging checklist by toolic

The sixth strategy, deparsing using B::Deparse, is particularly useful to know.

Cheers,