Through the abuse of the package variable @a your routine works after a fashion, however if you Use strict warnings and diagnostics or die it fails. Consider 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
sub push1{
        my $ref=shift;
        my @a=@{$ref};
        my $s=shift;
        my $len=@a;
        $a[$len]=$s;
        return \@a;
}
sub push2{
        my $ref=shift;
        my $s=shift;
        my $len=@{$ref};
        $ref->[$len]=$s;
        return ;
}
my @a=qw( 1 2 3 4 );
push1(\@a,5);
print "Using push1 ", @a,"\n";
@a=qw( 1 2 3 4 );
push2(\@a,5);
print "Using push2 ", @a,"\n";


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You either need to do something with the return value or act on a reference to the array rather than a copy of it.

In reply to Re: technique of push by Utilitarian
in thread technique of push by saranperl

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