These examples are from code written almost a year ago. Migrating from registry scripts to handlers is a "rainy-day" project (we have a very small team and LOT of work on our plate - all new development is done with PerlHandlers but we don't have time to rewrite old code). I was worried about the 'my' in particular because we all know the following is not good in mod_perl registry scripts:

my $counter;
&do_something;

sub do_something {
  $counter++;
}
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 use vars '$counter' is needed to make this global... I was worried I would have to  use vars '$self' Since I'm using my $self = shift in the subroutines I figured things would be safe and wanted to double check with you folks. Thanks