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List and Array have very clear and distinct definitions in Perl.

List is a type of value.
Array is a type of variable.

You can't take the length of a list.
There's no such thing as a reference to a list.
There's no such thing as a list in scalar context.

Come to think of it, that's in the FAQ.

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