in reply to $scalar => 'WTF?';

If you enabled warnings, you should have seen:

Useless use of a constant in void context at ...

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What you coded is exactly the same as:

my $x, 3;

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Which in turn is equivalent to:

my $x;
3;

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You declared but did not initialise $x and put a constant in a void context.

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Re^2: $scalar => 'WTF?';
by {}think (Sexton) on Sep 07, 2011 at 01:05 UTC
    I remember now, that => is simply a syntactical equivalent of the comma operator! This makes sense! Thanks
    {}think; #Think outside of the brackets
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