I can't make a serious justification, other than to visually group parts of an expression.

    push @array  => $foo, $bar, $baz;
    join '|'     => $foo, $bar, $baz;
    map func($_) => $foo, $bar, $baz;
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In this case, while the arrow appears reversed, I do it for stylistic consistency with the other expressions.