Either you are mistaken or I misunderstand you. 
$perl -MData::Dumper -we 'my @a = my ($x,$y,$z) = localtime;print Dump
+er \@a'

$VAR1 = [
          38,
          27,
          10
        ];
$perl -MData::Dumper -we 'my @a = () = localtime;print Dumper \@a'
$VAR1 = [];

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In both cases @a is assigned the result of the ...=localtime list assignment. And as perlop says, "a list assignment in list context produces the list of lvalues assigned to". In the my() case, the lvalues are the ones returned by my(). Though there seems to be a bug here: 
$perl -MData::Dumper -we 'my @a = my (undef,$y,$z) = localtime
;print Dumper \@a'
$VAR1 = [
          49,
          32,
          10
        ];

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I would have expected [undef,32,10] there.

In reply to Re: Re: Re(2): What Is 'my' Interested In? by ysth
in thread What Are Your Live Journal Friends Interested In? by Ovid

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