use Foobar; if (1) { Foobar::foovar(7); print "1. The value is now ", Foobar::foovar(), "\n"; Foobar::foovar(9); print "2. The value is now ", Foobar::foovar(), "\n"; } else { Foobar::foovar_once(7); print "1. The value is now ", Foobar::foovar_once(), "\n"; Foobar::foovar_once(9); print "2. The value is now ", Foobar::foovar_once(), "\n"; }