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in reply to Re^4: references--hard vs anonymous operational weirdness
in thread references--hard vs anonymous operational weirdness

The first of the two examples in the grandparent of this post is the "incorrect" code. To cut it down to a minimum

for my $tab ( 1 .. 3 ) { my @array = ( 0 .. $tab); printf "Array ref: %s\n", \@array; } __END__ Array ref: ARRAY(0x826acf4) Array ref: ARRAY(0x826acf4) Array ref: ARRAY(0x826acf4)
As you can see the same address is being reused. The latest perl review has an article about closures (PDF) that mentions it in passing.

I don't see how the code is incorrect. In the first example the value of @array is discarded but I could quite legitimately do something like

for my $value ( @values ) { my @array = frobinate($value); foreach my $bit (@array) { drill($bit); } }
and the memory location of @array is reused.