A lot of the discussion on this ticket was about the behavior of state(our...) or state(my...) This problem has been designed away by v5.24, in which nested declarators are illegal. I'm writing a fair bit of code targeting v5.24 right now, and I've found that there are many cases where I would really like to use "state @arr = ...;" Since the concerns of this ticket *seem* to be gone, now, can we press forward? -- rjbs --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=114932