7. When you said in your first reply that, "join function is a list operator, like print" are you refering to the syntactial behavior of print (because it can take an array as one of it's arguments) instead of the symantics of it ? Similarly when you say "print function flattens the list and processes each of the elements in string context, are you refering to it's symantics ?
No. join is a function, not an operator.
join, like all perl functions, takes lists as arguments (and conveniently provides them in the magical @_ array).
join is context independent, observe 
use strict;
use warnings;
my @stuff = 1 .. 10;
print( join(' a ',@stuff), $/ );
print( scalar join(' a ',@stuff), $/  );
__END__
1 a 2 a 3 a 4 a 5 a 6 a 7 a 8 a 9 a 10
1 a 2 a 3 a 4 a 5 a 6 a 7 a 8 a 9 a 10

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