arturo>perldoc -f our
our EXPR  
 An "our" declares the listed variables to be valid
 globals within the enclosing block, file, or
 "eval".  That is, it has the same scoping rules as
 a "my" declaration, but does not create a local
 variable.

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perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); $rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other_name\n"'