In response to all this lively discourse, the problem continues in spite of a suitably scoped my @pileofinchis array.
It may not be the actual problem, but as I
already wrote in
my reply to
BrowserUk's
one, I'd be curious to know what you are doing with that reference of it that you
return from your
sub.
use strict scares me
Not only, just
like davido "disuse of strictures scares me", but your being scared of
use strict; scares me too, since there's
really nothing to be scared of, that is: in letting perl help you to write good code.