Ah... yes. That would make it a bug. Sorry.

It doesn't seem to be the ternary operator causing the havoc, or pattern matching though:

$,=", ";
my $i;
print $i++, $i, $i++, $i, $i++, $i;

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prints

0, 3, 1, 3, 2, 3

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Using Dump, we can see that the optimizer is assuming that $1 must be constant for the length of time it takes to evaluate the list:

use Data::Dump::Streamer;
my $i;
print Dump \($i++, $i, $i++, $i, $i++, $i);

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prints

$SCALAR1 = \do { my $v = 0 };
$SCALAR2 = \do { my $v = 3 };
$SCALAR3 = \do { my $v = 1 };
$SCALAR4 = $SCALAR2;
$SCALAR5 = \do { my $v = 2 };
$SCALAR6 = $SCALAR2;

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The autoincrement is also not a necessary ingredient:

use Data::Dump::Streamer;
print Dump \("x"=~/(x)/, $1, "y"=~/(y)/, $1, "z"=~/(z)/, $1);

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prints

$SCALAR1 = \do { my $v = 'x' };
$SCALAR2 = \do { my $v = 'z' };
$SCALAR3 = \do { my $v = 'y' };
$SCALAR4 = $SCALAR2;
$SCALAR5 = \do { my $v = 'z' };
$SCALAR6 = $SCALAR2;

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In reply to Re^5: Strange Regex Behavior by quester
in thread Strange Regex Behavior by Manchego

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