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in thread Array reference problem

Thanks, that worked. However, I can't understand why one of these two 'families' of arrays can be accessed whereas the other not.

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Re^3: Array reference problem
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jul 07, 2009 at 19:36 UTC
    Because only for package variables does the lookup happen at runtime.
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