in reply to Globals, localisation and strict.
in thread declare globally

(Just a side note)
I think having a package called Main is pure evil. I hope the capital M was a typo :) 

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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