Folks,

I found that I'm not clear about the following:

do {
   push my @array, qw/x y z/ if $cond;
   push @array, qw/a b c/;
   ...some more things with @array...
}

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What is the expected scope of @array if $cond is false? I'd appreciate if someone could share some thoughts about this.

Background: on a very old Perl version, I ran into a problem where the old content of @array shows up after the first push (not before it!) when I enter the block a second time. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce it in a short script. The effect is only visible in a ~5k lines script. But there I can reproduce it every time I run the code.

In reply to Variable scope by Alphaphi

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