Ah, yes, of course. The warning exists in case some poor C programmer tries to do something like this:

This shouldn't be a problem for anyone who thinks in Perl, because Perl is nicely consistent: if it looks like a function call, Perl treats it like a function call. However, for fledglings who think in another language, especially a statement-oriented language, and try to translate into Perl, this can be a weird gotcha. Rather than taking the warning out, perhaps it would be better to have a way to suppress warnings like this that have to do more with Perl semantics than with what could be logic mistakes or typos in the program (such as a variable only used once).

$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/
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