Er... the result of reverse "ab" varies according to the context it is evaluated in. The concaternation operator evaluates it in scalar context.

$ perl -le 'print "0x" . reverse "ab"'
0xba
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I'm not saying my solution is a good idea, but I do know how reverse works :)

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