use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; #### $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -le 'for (0..1) { our $x = $_ } print $x' Variable "$x" is not imported at -e line 1. Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name at -e line 1. Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. #### $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -le 'use diagnostics; for (0..1) { our $x = $_ } print $x' Variable "$x" is not imported at -e line 1 (#1) (W misc) With "use strict" in effect, you referred to a global variable that you apparently thought was imported from another module, because something else of the same name (usually a subroutine) is exported by that module. It usually means you put the wrong funny character on the front of your variable. Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name at -e line 1. Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors (#2) (F) You've said "use strict" or "use strict vars", which indicates that all variables must either be lexically scoped (using "my" or "state"), declared beforehand using "our", or explicitly qualified to say which package the global variable is in (using "::"). Uncaught exception from user code: Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name at -e line 1. Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. at -e line 1.