Re: Is 'use vars' really obsolete?

Am I missing something?

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package Foo; 
our $test = 12345; 
package Bar; 
print $Foo::test; 
$Foo::test='abcde'; 
package Foo; 
print $test;;

12345
abcde
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Re^2: Is 'use vars' really obsolete? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 18, 2017 at 23:59 UTC
`package Foo; our $test = 12345; package Bar; print $test; __END__ 12345` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Is 'use vars' really obsolete? by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Sep 19, 2017 at 00:56 UTC
our has lexical scope. `c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "{ package Foo; our $test = 12345; } ;; { package Bar; print 'fully qualified: ', $Foo::test; } " fully qualified: 12345` [download] Try the statement `print 'unqualified: ', $test;` in package `Bar`. BTW: Perl 5.14 introduced the neater (IMHO) `package NAMESPACE BLOCK` syntax, so the code above could now look like `package Foo { our $test = 12345; } package Bar { print 'fully qualified: ', $Foo::test; }` [download] Update: Note that package also has lexical scope! Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]