$ perl -e 'use strict;use Data::Dumper;{my @c=(0..10);$d=\@c} print Dumper $d' Global symbol "$d" requires explicit package name at -e line 1. Global symbol "$d" requires explicit package name at -e line 1. #### $ perl -e 'use strict;use Data::Dumper;{my @a=(0..10);$b=\@a} print Dumper $b' $VAR1 = [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ];