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And this only works for package variables not private ones.

FWIW there is a common use case for this "hack".

The debugger is caching the code lines of the debugged file for introspection in such a "hidden" array, to avoid name conflicts with regular vars.

Update: See https://perldoc.perl.org/perldebguts#Debugger-Internal-Variables for more.

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