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@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ is legal to assign to:
($map{'red'}, $map{'blue'}, $map{'green'}) = (0x00f, 0x0f0, 0xf00);
-Array assignment in a scalar context returns the number of elements
+List assignment in a scalar context returns the number of elements
produced by the expression on the right side of the assignment:
$x = (($foo,$bar) = (3,2,1)); # set $x to 3, not 2