in reply to Re^2: mkdir with a list variable
in thread mkdir with a list variable

... which basically is what casiano was trying to do:

@a = ('/tmp/DIRECT', 18)

I answered his question in context of CORE and CORE::GLOBAL operators (resp. Re^2: CORE and CORE::GLOBAL operators), and imagine the actual code is some generalized call routine to dispatch the call on a remote machine.