Or, incidentally, this works too:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
{
package CONFIG;
use vars qw($foo);
}
....
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Putting 'package ' inside a a block eliminates the need to return back to the main package via 'package main' call. ;-)

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