$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E ' say "Hello, world!"; populate_nums(); report_nums(); my @nums; sub populate_nums { push @nums => 0 .. 9 } sub report_nums { say "@nums" } ' Hello, world! 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 #### $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E ' say "Hello, world!"; populate_nums(); report_nums(); my @nums; sub populate_nums { push @nums => 0 .. 9 } sub report_nums { my @nums; say "@nums" } ' Hello, world!