Is there such a thing as a list in scalar context?

Question

my $mind = ( \'a\', \'little\', \'confused\' );

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And it\'s because perldoc perlfaq4 explains the line above as follows (emphasis added):

Answer 1

I agree with you and with perlfaq4. To quote perldata, which is probably the definitive documentation on this point:

In a context not requiring a list value, the value of what appears to be a list literal is simply the value of the final element, as with the C comma operator.

(emphasis mine).

That said, ikegami is entitled to use whatever terminology (s)he wants. Different people think of different language constructs in different terms, and as long as the end results are the same, I don't think it matters if their terminology differs from that in the documentation. (It's not a great idea to insist on idiosyncratic terminology in a public forum, though!)