in reply to Re^2: Using ternary operator as lvalue in push
in thread Using ternary operator as lvalue in push

my $c = 1;
push $c>0 ? @a : @b, "foo";

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is not optimized by the compiler. It only folds constants. $c is not a constant. On the other hand, the following would be optimized: 
use constant c => 1;
push c>0 ? @a : @b, "foo";

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