What is i in your for loop? It's not a variable. I think you meant:

for(my $i = 0; $i < 9; $i++) {
   . . . 
}
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Which can be written more simply as:

for my $i (0 .. 8) {
   . . . 
}
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Where is @_ coming from? $_ is not the same as @_. As far as perl is concerned those two variables are only similar in that they share a glob.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
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