But print allways uses list context. So print doesn't get the string 'This::is::it', but a list consisting of  'This::is::it', '', '', which still evaluates to 'This::is::it'

Try this:

perl -we "print test'bla=>$/"
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You'll see that the value of $/ will be printed, as => is just another comma operator, so the above is the same as

perl -we "print test'bla,$/"
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You can pack in even more commas:

perl -we "print test'bla=>=>=>=>=>''"
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(BTW, I've been using the single-quote-as-package-delimiter trick for quite some time in my .sig>

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#!/usr/bin/perl
for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}
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