This is what I get when I run it on ActiveState 5.6 under NT: 
$VAR1 = [
          undef,
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          'foo bar'
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          undef,
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          ${\$VAR1->[0]},
          'foo bar'
        ];

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So it works on 5.6. It's funny how the empty elements point to the undef at 0. If you put something there then the empty ones will point to the first empty one, which will be given undef: (What would be the advantage of doing it this way, instead of putting undef on all, as they had on 5.005?) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;

    use Data::Dumper;

    my @comps;
    $comps[10] = "foo bar";
    $comps[0] = "foo bar";
    $comps[4] = "foo bar";
    print Dumper \@comps;

    my $base = "Foo bar";
    print Dumper \@comps;

outputs: 

$VAR1 = [
          'foo bar',
          undef,
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          'foo bar',
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          'foo bar'
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          'foo bar',
          undef,
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          'foo bar',
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          ${\$VAR1->[1]},
          'foo bar'
        ];

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In reply to Re: Core Dumping with Arrays by gregorovius
in thread Core Dumping with Arrays by btrott

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