this, I must say, is a marvelous turn of events. I'm almost glad I gave the bad advice, just for learning the above.

ie, since ',' always evaluates its left argument first and is listed as left-associative, this means Perl would definitely process every argument list left-to-right?
And also, $var++ is passed by value, while ++$var is passed by reference, so print($var++,++$var,$var++) would print 143...
truly magnificent, albeit mildly confusing..

In any case, thanks for the correction, Dave