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Re: precedence... wow.. so perl is different than C in that case? Thought for sure C took the right most element and that perl was designed to follow C precedence rules. hmmm...I should probably go test a C case now...
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Re^4: The behavior when assigning an array to scalar?
by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 27, 2017 at 20:29 UTC
    C doesn't have context, but the behaviour of comma is very similar to Perl: 
    #include <stdio.h>
int main () {
  int i;

  i=1,2,3;
  printf("%d\n", i);

  i=(1,2,3);
  printf("%d\n", i);
  return 0;
}

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    Update: more similar example chosen.

    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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