Was playing with splice and noticed that there is a difference between hardcoded ARRAY refenrences and softcoded ARRAY references. Hope this will help somebody in future!! See also : http://perlmaven.com/splice-to-slice-and-dice-arrays-in-perl. Please notice : I've changed the code from the above link. 

$dwarfs = [ qw(Doc Grumpy Happy Sleepy Sneezy Dopey Bashful) ];

print "@{$dwarfs}\n";
print "@dwarfs\n";
@removed = splice @{$dwarfs},3 ,2;
$removed =  [ @removed ]; #1. please notice : this makes a copy first 
+of @removed . # changes to @{$removed} will NOT affect @removed
#$removed = \@removed ;   #2. please notice : this is a hard reference
+ . # changes to @{$removed} will affect @removed.
# let's examine the above : Just uncomment  one of the above lines
# it's you're choise which one to use.
pop @{$removed} ;
print "@removed\n";

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In reply to hard versus soft reference to ARRAY's by teun-arno

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