You incorrectly assume that the list operator is only used in void context when that's rarely the case. You're advocating that 
foo(bar('x'), 'y');

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should mean 
foo(bar('x', 'y'));

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Needless to say, I disagree.

In Perl6, whitespace between the function name and the parens will cause the parens to be treated as part of the argument, not part of the function call.

It's rather impossible to change that in Perl5, assuming it's ever desirable. If you're going to omit the parens around a function call, expect problems. But if you make sure that the first argument doesn't start with a paren, you'll avoid most of them.

In reply to Re^3: print list, comma not working? by ikegami
in thread print list, comma not working? by fzellinger

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