Bryan C. Warnock asked: > Since the parentheses are no longer required, will the expressions > lose or retain their own scope level? (I'm assuming that whatever > rule applies, it will hold true if you do elect to use parantheses > anyway.)
Err. Expressions don't have their own scope level, even in Perl 5. Try this: $y = "package y"; $x = ! defined my $y; print "[$y]\n"; Damian