I am getting slightly different behaviours depending on whether I use
screwed $_;

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or
screwed "$_";

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I use AS 5.6.1
In the first, screwed()::@_ gets clobbered, in the second screwed()::@_ is OK, but @instances is still clobbered.

And if I could just add, to the original poster, that 
map {function($_)} @array;

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is generally frowned upon - map returns a list, and by not having map on the RHS of an assignment
@result_set = map {function($_)} @array

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, that list is considered being used in a void context. This means, in this case, all the hard work of creating a list of results via the map is wasted, the list is thrown away. Because screwed() doesn't explicitly return a value, it defaults to using the return value of the close() statement at the end of the sub. If you really dont care about the return values of applying a function using the elements of an array as parameters, it is 'better'(tm) to use this idiom
foreach (@array) {sub_without_meaningful_return($_)}

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This makes it clear that the function has side-effects - that is, the function uses and possibly changes some variable outside its scope- in screwed()'s case, STDOUT is used.
merlyn has lectured me once on this - so I now pass this on.

In reply to Re: opening a file destroys nulling entries in a list?!?! by leriksen
in thread opening a file destroys nulling entries in a list?!?! by matpalm

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