in reply to What namespace is CGI:ReadParse() using?

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a "stop doing it that way" but it seems that Vars is exactly what you want. To paraphrase the docs, 

    use CGI ':cgi-lib';
    %in = Vars;

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Or, do an our %in at the top, or use %::in.

We are using here a powerful strategy of synthesis: wishful thinking. -- The Wizard Book

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