in reply to perl () magic and how does it work ?

Tip: Don't test with lists whose last item is the same as the number of elements.

my $x = (1,2,3); my $y =()= (1,2,3); print "$x / $y\n"; # prints "3 / 3" $x = ("a","b","c"); $y =()= ("a","b","c"); print "$x / $y\n"; # prints "c / 3"

See also Comma Operator