As you say you are learning Perl, it may be helpful for you to  use diagnostics; in addition to enabling strictures and warnings (which, IMO, should always be done). Another good question to ask in a situation like this is "Why is 6 the only thing printed?". (Some of the diagnostic output in the example below has been elided, and sorry about all the line wrap.) 

>perl -le
"use warnings;
 use strict;
 use diagnostics;
 my $list = (2,3,4,5,6);
 print qq{$list \n};
"
Useless use of a constant in void context at -e line 1 (#1)
    (W void) You did something without a side effect in a context that
+ does
    nothing with the return value, such as a statement that doesn't re
+turn a
    value from a block, or the left side of a scalar comma operator.  
+    
    ...
    
    Another common error is to use ordinary parentheses to construct a
+ list
    reference when you should be using square or curly brackets, for
    example, if you say

        $array = (1,2);

    when you should have said

        $array = [1,2];

    The square brackets explicitly turn a list value into a scalar val
+ue,
    while parentheses do not.  So when a parenthesized list is evaluat
+ed in
    a scalar context, the comma is treated like C's comma operator, wh
+ich
    throws away the left argument, which is not what you want.  See
    perlref for more on this.

    ...

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