Many (some? Me anyway, but a long time ago:) have been bitten by trying 

my $aryref = \qw(A B C);

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to generate a ref to an array of quoted scalars, and ended up with a a ref to the last quoted scalar. This is explained in perlref

Taking a reference to an enumerated list is not the same as using square brackets--instead it's the same as creating a list of references! 
    @list = (\$a, \@b, \%c);
    @list = \($a, @b, %c);      # same thing!

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Now, for reasons of my own, I wanted to generate an array of references to scalar, but the twist is that the scalars in question are a list of sequential integers.

Now the easy way to generate a list of sequential integers is the range operator 3 .. 5,

so I tried [ \(3 .. 5)]

and got [[3,4,5]]

Which was not what I expected. It's easy enough to work around

[ map \$_, 3 .. 5 ]

or even a golfish

 [\(@_=(3..5))],

but it seems strange that the first option doesn't do what I thought. Is this a bug, special magic, what everyone else expected?

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

The 7th Rule of perl club is -- pearl clubs are easily damaged. Use a diamond club instead.

In reply to Anon. array of refs to a range generated list of scalars. by BrowserUk

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