I'm hesitant to post an "did I find a bug in perl?" type question, but I ran across a snippet of code yesterday that has caused me some confusion.

The original code looked like this: 

map {1,$_} @foo

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However, this raises a syntax error. Some further testing revealed that 
map {(1,$_)} @foo

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and, somewhat more surprisingly 
map {$_,1} @foo

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both work as expected (i.e, return the elements of @foo interlaced with ones)

To further confuse the issue, this error cropped up several times in a set of otherwise completely functional scripts, leading me to wonder if this is a change (/me avoids using the word "bug") in 5.6, which I believe the scripts predate. Any thoughts?

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Ryan Koppenhaver, Aspiring Perl Hacker

In reply to Syntax question with by rlk

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