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Further examination reveals that the example program originally submitted is far more cluttered than is necessary:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $i;
my @a = (1..10);
my $last = $#{@a};
print "Last index: $last\n";
__END__
Running this program through the debugger produces the "Bizarre copy of ARRAY in leave" error. Running the program normally (outside the debugger) produces output as though $last had been assigned to $#a.
Please note that removing the { } from @a causes normal execution of the script to produce much more expected results:
Use of $# is deprecated at <file> line 8.
Array found where operator expected at <file> line 8, at end of line
(Missing operator before ?)
syntax error at <file> line 8, near "$#@a"
Execution of <file> aborted due to compilation errors.
Paul Lalli
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