Re^2: false warning: print (...) interpreted as function

It depends on what you print, too:

my $x = print ( (sort {$b <=> $a} grep defined,
         @_)[ 0 ], " - was a max defined value\n" );
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Re^3: false warning: print (...) interpreted as function
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Nov 06, 2015 at 13:17 UTC

According to the Camel Book (4^th Edition, 2012, p. 918), parentheses around all the arguments should be ok, even with a space between the print and the opening left parenthesis:

Also, remembering the if-it-looks-like-a-function-it-is-a-function rule, be careful not to follow the print keyword with a left parenthesis unless you want the corresponding right parenthesis to terminate the arguments to the print. Instead, interpose a + or put parens around all the arguments:
print  (1+2)*3, "\n";       # WRONG
print +(1+2)*3, "\n";       # ok
print ((1+2)*3, "\n");      # ok
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I’m guessing that the warnings pragma is made suspicious when the closing right parenthesis either (1) is followed by other expressions, or (2) doesn’t appear on the same line as the opening left parenthesis — as in the example cited.

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