Missing first arg in list causes error

[Paul Makepeace]

This just bit me,

  $ perl -le 'print [,"",,]'
  syntax error at -e line 1, near "[,"
  Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
  $ perl -le 'print ["",,,]'
  ARRAY(0x814ac28)
  $

Why does the first one fail?

Paul

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