shell> perl -c - use strict 'vars'; use vars qw( $foo ); $foo = "package variable declared with use vars"; my $bar = "lexical variable"; $main::baz = "fully qualified package variable"; our $quux = "YAWTDAV"; $::abc = 'shortcut for $main::abc'; ${*{$main::{x}}{SCALAR}} = 'verbosely assign to $::x'; - syntax OK