in reply to open and list context (?)

Thanks for replies, I almost suspected the parens didn't mean list context here. Any reason why they're used like this in the book? It frequently recommends the use of less punctuation.

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Re^2: open and list context
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 13, 2011 at 06:09 UTC

    Well, if my were normal, 

    open my $fh, '<', $file

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    would mean 

    open(my($fh, '<', $file))

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    Maybe the author didn't like to rely on the specialness of my?? I'm really reaching here.

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