Happens with 5.8.9 and 5.12.2

With the help of perldeltas and the keywords: return, pushmark , padhv, bind, assign, pad, ex-list, rv2hv, rv2av

Maybe this fixed it perl5140delta#given return values / http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.14.0/pod/perlsyn.pod#Return_value

Maybe related #77498: Assignment ignores magick when the RHS holds a glob

not Maybe related perl5138delta#sv_compile_2op() is now deprecated

I say maybe, cause I didn't check the source to see if it was involved, or I couldn't track down what changed

update: aha , if checking perldeltas doesn't yield results, free probably will :) http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=free&s=aassign

Better fix for RT #2140 (list assignment with duplicated temporaries)

#2140: assigning array slice of function call to hash slice

That looks to be it, but you wouldn't know it from the bug report

In reply to Re: return of hash-assigment in list context (bug?) by Anonymous Monk
in thread return of hash-assigment in list context (bug?) by LanX

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