Actually I get different results. On 5.6.1 (win32) lexicals declared after INIT are not visible from INIT.

My results on 5.8 match yours if I run your code. Not surprising since your code is different from mine :-)

dump_lex climbs up the callstack to the enclosing file lexical scope. So it would be the same sort of thing as doing this:

use warnings;
use strict;

INIT {
   use Data::Dumper;
   use PadWalker qw (peek_my peek_sub);    
   print Dumper(peek_my(1));
}

my $foo = 'lee';
my $bar = "Bar";

print Dumper(peek_my(0));

{ my @foo = (1..3) };
{ my @bar = (9..12) };

print Dumper(peek_my(0));
[download]

Which gives (on 5.8)

$VAR1 = {
          '$foo' => \undef,
          '@bar' => [],
          '@foo' => [],
          '$bar' => \undef
        };
$VAR1 = {
          '$foo' => \'lee',
          '$bar' => \'Bar'
        };
$VAR1 = {
          '$foo' => \'lee',
          '$bar' => \'Bar'
        };
[download]

Again, INIT can see everything, but nothing can be seen before/after the blocks are executed at the top level. I still don't understand what's happening here :-)

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