$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e' my $x; Dump $x; Dump $_ for $x; Dump grep 1, $x; Dump do { $x }; Dump map $_, $x; Dump sub { $x }->(); Dump eval { $x }; ' 2>&1 | grep 'SV =' SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x814ecdc # Address of $x SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x814ecdc # for aliases SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x814ecdc # grep aliases SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x814ecdc # do aliases SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x814ed9c # map copies SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x814f7f8 # sub copies SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x814ed9c # eval copies