#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.022; use warnings; use feature 'refaliasing'; no warnings 'experimental::refaliasing'; @::data = (1 .. 3); say "Data before pop_sum: @::data"; say "Sum of data: ", pop_sum(\@::data); say "Data after pop_sum: @::data"; say '---'; say "Data before pop_sum_ref: @::data"; say "Sum of data: ", pop_sum_ref(\@::data); say "Data after pop_sum_ref: @::data"; sub pop_sum { local our @data = @{+shift}; my $total = 0; say "\tTotal: $total; Data: @data"; while (1) { $total += pop @data; say "\tTotal: $total; Data: @data"; last if $#data < 0; } return $total; } sub pop_sum_ref { \local our @data = shift; my $total = 0; say "\tTotal: $total; Data: @data"; while (1) { $total += pop @data; say "\tTotal: $total; Data: @data"; last if $#data < 0; } return $total; }