#!/usr/bin/perl
  use v5.22;
  use warnings FATAL => qw(all);
  use strict;
  use Data::Dump qw(dump);

  my @n = 1..2;

  sub load
   {return my @a unless @n;
    push @a, @n;
    @a
   }

  say "$_ ", dump([load()]) for 1..10;

  =pod
  1 [1, 2]
  2 [1, 2, 1, 2]
  3 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
  4 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
  5 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
  6 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
  7 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
  8 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
  9 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
 10 [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]

 This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 1 (v5.22.1) built for x86_64-l
+inux-gnu-thread-multi

=cut

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Surely @a is local to sub load?

In reply to Surely @a is local to sub load? by philiprbrenan

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