[balfebs]

Not sure what you mean, but ternaries are right-associative in Perl just like most other languages. PHP is the odd one out.

[retrocryptid]

Except when they're not.

[User23]

And when is that? The docs just say it's right associative[1]. And while it's been a long time since I've written any nontrivial Perl, I don't remember ever having ?: be left associative.

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop