Hello.

I was playing with '~~' "operator" (perlsecret#Inchworm), which is equivalent to 'scalar()' if parsed as two consecutive unary bit-inverting operators, not as experimental smartmatch op. And there is a case where parser can't understand what do I mean (unary forcing scalar or binary smartmatch): 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wl

use strict;

    @_ = qw( a b c );
        
    open my $A, '>', "out.txt";
    
    print $A ~~@_;
    print $A scalar @_;

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STDOUT: empty
STDERR: Smartmatch is experimental at smartmatch_or_scalar.pl line 9.
> cat out.txt
3

In my opinion usual operators (bit-inversion) should be in higher precedence of parsing than experimental operators, but in my code '~~' was interpreted as experimental smartmatch.

In reply to Ambiguous '~~' in 'print scalar ~~list' by rsFalse

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