I've run into a very odd scenario where scoping seems to break something awful. Consider the following examples: 
File driver.pl:

use strict;
use TestMeNow;
my %map = TestMeNow::initialize('value', 'Here I am!');
&{$map{'onecase'}{'ex'}}();

File TestMeNow.pm:

use strict;
package TestMeNow;
my(%map, $value, %mapping);
$map{'value'} = \$value;
sub initialize
{
    my(%args) = @_;
    foreach(keys %args)
    {
        ${$map{$_}} = $args{$_};
    }
    my $string = <DATA>;
    %mapping = eval $string;
    return %mapping;
}
1;
__DATA__
'onecase', { 'ex' => sub {print "$value\n";} }

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This is an initialization routine I'm using as part of allowing *trusted* user configuration for a script (cut down to see the problem, obviously). Run as is, a newline is output. Adding the line  $value; immediately prior to the eval leads to the correct result, however. I've found a workaround, but re-reading perlsub leads me to believe this is broken behavior. Has anyone else seen anything similar? This is 5.8.4, running on Linux. Thanks, Cambo

In reply to File-scoped lexicals and eval scope? by Cambo

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