Do you mean "it returns a reference to an anonymous array which has been initialised with the list's individual elements/values" - and that, in this case, those "elements/values" are actually references ?

Depends on exactly which list we're talking about... I was referring to the original values stored in @foo, and you're presumably thinking of the values after the referencing operation \(...) has been applied — in a human language it's not as easy to express things clearly as it is in Perl :)

Anyhow, the net effect of this is:

my @foo = (1, 2, "foo");
my $bar = [\(@foo)];

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $bar;

__END__
$VAR1 = [
          \1,
          \2,
          \'foo'
        ];
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IOW, "$bar->[2]" would produce something like SCALAR(0x814ec28), which you'd need to dereference (${$bar->[2]}) to get at the value "foo".

And yes, (1..10) is a list.

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