in reply to When is my variable not really mine?

You wouldn't happen to be using mod_perl, would you? If you're using mod_perl, and not BOTH useing strict; and explicitly declaring a package, you can run into wild namespace collisions within a particular Apache child process.

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RE: RE: When is my variable not really mine?
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Sep 07, 2000 at 19:22 UTC
    I don't think this is a namespace issue. He's talking about problems with the scoping of his variables. It sounds like everything is local to the same namespace (package).
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