Will you be using $points later? If so, this is likely to be the error. It seems like you're not running under use strict so the fact that you expect $points to be an arrayref but actually you're writing into @points isn't caught. There is another error in the assignment, as each $points[$posi] element will have ($prev[0],$prev1) evaluated in scalar context, yielding the second element only. I'd try:
for $posi (1 .. 4) {
  @prev = ($prev[0] + cos($rot+$ang[$posi]) * $dist[$posi],
           $prev[1] + sin($rot+$ang[$posi]) * $dist[$posi]);
  $points->[$posi] = [ @prev ];
  glVertex2f(@prev);
}

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Edit: copied the same mistake I explained just before m(

In reply to Re: Data not acting as expected. by mbethke
in thread Data not acting as expected. by Pseudomander

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