Just a few things wrong with your code. Fix these, and then see if you still have questions...

• Lowercase package names are reserved for internal use only.
• A subroutine named "y" will be confused with the built-in "y" operator.
• @array should have been declared with "my"
• Setting @array to a single element consisting of an empty anonymous array probably doesn't do what you think it does. You wanted @array = ()
• Even that would be unneeded if you had simply used my @array; because that's the initial value anyway.
• All the hoops with $temp can be eliminated by just using the anonymous hash constructor:

  $array[0] = { Name => 'Fred', Age => 45 };
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• You're returning @List which was never set. Did you mean to return @Array?
• A subroutine named "x" makes it hard to get in to the built-in "x" operator
• @List should be declared with my

You need to fix all of these before you even start to worry about scope.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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