any(all(1,4)) evaluates to any() since in scalar context there's nothing that can evaluate to all(1,4), i.e. to 1 and 4 simulataneously (any is conjunctive).

I've just tried out the example in de docs, and is doesn't seem to work: 

my @features = ("tall", "handsome", "rich");
my $ideal = any(all("tall", "handsome", "rich"
                all("rich", "old"),
                all("smart", "rich", "Australian"));

if (any(@features) eq $ideal) {
    print "success\n";
} else {
    print "failure\n";
}

print any(@features), "\n";
print $ideal, "\n";

__END__
failure
any(handsome,tall,rich)
any()

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Changing any to all for @features doesn't help matters.
Something's rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark...

I think we'll need Damian on this, -gjb-

Update: Removed the strike-through of the explanation since it seems to be correct after all. The docs are probably wrong.

In reply to Re: Nested Quantum::Superpositions by gjb
in thread Nested Quantum::Superpositions by welchavw

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