[FWP] Shortest scalarizer?

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

I was being sloppy and did something like:

  printf "%-8s....", getpwuid($UID), ...

and of course, that didn't do what I wanted, since I needed scalar 
context on the getpwuid.  So I did the simple thing first:
      scalar(getpwuid($UID))
and that worked great but I found it pretty ugly..  So I tried to find 
something shorted and less obtrusive to 'scalarize' the arg.  the best I 
came up with is:
      ''.getpwuid($UID)

 /Bernie\
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