Be careful, for here you are using a closure. Remember, when an anonymous subroutine is defined, it uses whatever lexical variables are in scope at the time it was created. So: 

use strict;

my @foo = ();

my $pushit = sub {
    push @foo, @_;
};

$pushit->('apple');
$pushit->('orange');

print @foo, "\n";

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will print "appleorange", but 
use strict;

my @foo = ();

my $pushit = sub {
    push @foo, @_;
};

my @foo = ();

$pushit->('apple');
$pushit->('orange');

print @foo, "\n";

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will print nothing, since the @foo that is printed is not the same @foo that is being populated. (That'll also happen if you're not using strict, and somehow only declare @foo after the closure is created.) If this is the case, it'll show up if you turn warnings on... if the new @foo (or @coords in your case) is in the same scope as the other one. If @coords is file-scoped, you might well want to use 'our' instead of 'my'... that way you're guaranteed a single variable.

stephen

In reply to Re: Question of scope by stephen
in thread Question of scope by Popcorn Dave

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