Close. The argument is more like:
One has a reasonable expectation of seeing a list following a paren when declaring and initializing a hash or array (%hash= and @array=), so parens indicate the presence of a list.
My thought was to connect the idea of passing in a list of key/value pairs to the parens. So if someone is not sure which one to use they could think "[]=array, {}=hash, and ()=list, and I'm assigning it a list of key/value pairs, so I guess I should use parens". Not perfect, but I really didn't see how just thinking of them as precedence overriders would aid in dispelling confusion over when to use () instead of {} or []. But associating the parens with lists -- something similar in concept to arrays and hashes -- would help. It's not a perfect answer, but one hurdle at a time.

Update: 89% was just a high number. Could have been any example. Was not claiming it was accurate. Was just using a very high number as a tie-in to expectations. Trying to read any validity or claim of validity for that number completely missed the point.

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In reply to Re^33: Why? (each...) by Argel
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