You can, but only if $CGI is not declared using my. This means either a use vars '$CGI'; or our $CGI (or don't declare it at all and don't use strict, but you should use strict).

Still doesn't work:

package Foo;
use strict;
require Exporter;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK);
@ISA = qw(Exporter);

@EXPORT_OK = qw($CGI);
@EXPORT = qw($CGI);

use CGI;
our $CGI = new CGI;
die $CGI;

# I tried the export stuff down here, too

1;


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use Foo qw($CGI);
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"$CGI" is not exported by the Foo module at..
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Hm. I was prepared to appolgize for posting without testing, and being wrong thereby... but all I can say is that it works fine for me... so long as I put the first and second parts of this in different files. Otherwise, I get an error because there is no Foo.pm -- are you sure you're picking up the right file?

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