Fellow monks,

I've got the following bit of code that is losing the contents of a global array upon it's exit. 

$canvas->Tk::bind('<Button-1>' =>
             [sub {
                   my ($e,$x,$y) = (@_);
                   shift;
                   push (@coords, $x);
                   push (@coords, $y);

                   },
              Ev('x'), Ev('y')]);

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Now it's my ascertion, that since @coords was previously defined as a global, I should be able to keep the information in it without having to return it, correct? The values in @coords should not be clobbered as they're not declared as locals in this subroutine.

Is this one of those I'm gonna kick myself when I get an answer things that I'm just obtusely overlooking?

Thanks!

In reply to Question of scope by Popcorn Dave

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