Honestly, this is so not the way you want to do an infinite list. I won't even get into the why (other responders already have), and Google can tell you the details of it better than I can anyway (although maybe not perl-specific, but the theory at least).
The following is the more commonly accepted way to go about such a thing.
my $counter = 0;
my $generator = sub { ++$counter };
while (1) {
print $generator->();
}
To re-do your example it would be this:
my $gimme_an_A = sub { 'a' };
while (1) {
print $gimme_an_A->();
}
Your approach is very memory wasteful since you have an infinitely growing @array, which will eventually consume all available system memory. The above versions never store previous values (which I can only assume you are never using anyway) so they can run in a pretty small and compact memory space.
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