I've tried to get into the mysteries of the strict pragma, but it seems that there are some miracelous things happening - at least I do have this impression.

#!usr/bin/perl
use strict;

# prints 'nono1', so '=>' seems to be interpreted as '.'
print nono => "1"; 

# just ok though
print nono . "1"; 

# Error as expected : No comma allowed after filehandle ...
print nono, 1;

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The docs for strict state that barewords don't raise errors if left of the '=>' operator, but ...

My question is, why is the assignment operator '=>' in the first 'print' statement here interpreted as a dot and not as a comma as I would expect it as this is how it gets interpreted in a hash key=>value assignment?

Sorry if I seem a bit stupid, but I better ask before I tend to remember wrong relations.

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