N.B. Although I understood these examples, I still feel that I have yet to internalize Perl context to the extent that it has become second nature. This shows up especially in more-complex examples than the ones you use here.

1/ What context is this expression being evaluated in?
2/ How do these operations and functions behave in this context?

And this example nicely demonstrates that even if the first part is (sometimes) obvious, the only sure way to get an answer to the second question is to look in the documentation.

I didn’t know reverse changed it’s return based on context. Learn something new every day.

@ll – Here’s a hint:

print scalar reverse qw(foo bar baz);

prints “zabraboof”.

But in the meantime, if you want to work it out for yourself you could try reading the documentation for ‘reverse’ (and, of course, ‘scalar’ and ‘print’).