If you're going to do it "inlined" like that I'd recommend putting it inside a derefed array ref.

@{[scalar .... ]}
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As in:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

print "Yours: ${\localtime()}\n";
print "Mine:  @{[scalar localtime() ]}\n";

__END__

=head1 OUTPUT
Yours: 0
Mine:  Thu Nov 15 18:27:10 2001
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-Blake