in reply to Less-than-helpful warnings
There is three steps to what happens here: the values from the variables are read, then the various resulting strings are passed to a series of concatenation ops, and finally the result is passed to print.
The existence of a variable is only apparent in step 1, but reading an undefined value from a value is not and should not elicit a warning. During the concatenation step where the undef is encountered and warned about, its relation to a variable is unknown. You could just as well write
print 1 . " " . 2 . " " . 3 . " " . 4 . " " . undef;
From the concatenation operation's point of view, there's no difference to your own code.
While this situation seems trivial to a human, it is decidedly non-trivial to handle; you would need logic close to a generic partial evaluator to solve this matter.
Makeshifts last the longest.
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