I am not sure if there is much difference in having the key word "my" in front of the variable that you have versus not having it

That's not the crucial point.

What's important is that I assign the contents, not the results of the backticks operation to a variable - and by doing that, I can use a different quoting constructor (single quotes).

Could this be a bug?

I don't see a bug; I just see a bug in your understanding of nested quoting constructs (which is not surprising, because three different ones appear: backticks, shell interpolation and shell interpolation in double-quoted strings).

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In reply to Re^5: Troubleshooting question by moritz
in thread Troubleshooting question by elittle

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