in reply to Poll: How should the =( )= be called???

Cos it squeezes a list into a scalar as demonstrated by this one-liner: 

perl -e"$|++;print(qq[\r(  )]),select('','','',.1),print(qq[\r=()=]),s
+elect('','','',0.2) while 1"

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