Something like that, yes. Because the variables are put into the symbol table, they are global. In fact, 'our' has no semantical effect unless you use strict vars, so:

our $foo = 1;
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and

$foo = 1;
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shouldn't be different at all. It is first when you introduce use strict vars that the our keyword will have a different semantical effect.

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