Re: Why does NOT operator on match operator on string concatenation require two pairs of parens?

$ perl -MO=Deparse -e'if (not $label.$inst =~ /\blea\b/i) {}'
unless ($label . $inst =~ /\blea\b/i) {
    ();
}
-e syntax OK
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$ perl -MO=Deparse -e'if (not ($label.$inst) =~ /\blea\b/i) {}'
if (!($label . $inst) =~ /\blea\b/i) {
    ();
}
-e syntax OK
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