The following code mimics what is going:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use diagnostics;

my @i = (5);
my $n;

map {
  $n = @i[1..0];
  print $n.":";
  my $u = "z";
} (6,2,3,4);

print "outside:";
print $n;

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This prints "4:z:z:z:outside:z" I think it is a bug in the interpreter. There is no $i[1] so it ends up assigning the last element of the list passed to map or the last literal value ("z") from the stack.
That's just my guess though.

In reply to Re: Assignment changes handle? by CountOrlok
in thread Assignment changes handle? by jw47

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