I'm getting (to me) counter intuitive results.

The code (problematic lines 14 & 15 are put between #====s):

@gum = qw(foo noo goo);
@do = qw(test);

package test;

sub new {my $pkg = shift;
 bless {
  name=> "test",
  array=>\@gum
 }
}
sub express{
 my ($self, $body) = @_;
#========================
 print "$body: $self->{name} ", ref $self->{array}," $self->{array}\n"
+;
 print "@$self->{array}\n";
#=========================
}

package main;

foreach $type (@do){
 $moo = new $type();
 $moo->express("here it is");
}
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yields the following output:

C:\apache\cgi-bin\test>perl phah.pl
here it is: test ARRAY ARRAY(0x1824778)
Not an ARRAY reference at phah.pl line 15.
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But the output of line 14 implies that it is an array reference. What's going on?

BTW, I'm using Hall and Schwartz's "Effective Perl Programming" as reference and guidelines. Can/Should I blame my operating system? (Windows XP; always a fun target for blame casting...)

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