I've come across some unexpected behaviour and I am struggling to understand it...can you help?

perl -e "print (localtime)[6];"
syntax error at -e line 1, near ")["
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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...but...

perl -e "my $test = (localtime)[6];print $test"
5

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So I thought it was a problem of print not converting the array to a scalar so I tried...

perl -e "print scalar (localtime)[6]"
syntax error at -e line 1, near ")["
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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What is the difference here with using an intermediate variable that doesn't happen when using print directly?

In reply to Can you explain the difference with print? by Bod

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