Monks, I have been messing with shortcuts involving context, and I have noticed, to put it not very eloquently: some stuff works, and some stuff doesn't. 
use strict;
use warnings;
my $one = (1,2,3,4)[0];
print $one ; # works
#print (1,2,3,4)[1]; # fails, print is "interpretted as a function" ??
#print scalar (1,2,3,4)[2]; # fails, syntax error 
print +(1,2,3,4)[3]; #works, but why?

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As it stands, this script prints 14: the first and fourth print statements succeed.

I want to improve my perl intuition. I would like to know why the second and third print fail (after uncommenting), and the fourth print works, and where this is best documented.

Thanks as always for sharing the vast wisdom concentrated here.

In reply to arrays, context, and print - oh my. by tphyahoo

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