The only thing that bothers me is that we have at the same time :

• 'use vars' and 'our' are equivalent in the sense that they make a variable reachable from outside of the package.
• 'our' make a variable lexically scoped.

I have no problem with the first point (I've checked it several times).

But I thought that lexically scoped vars couldn't be accessed from the outside
beccause they weren't in the package's namespace (but were in a 'scratchpad').

Did I wrongly assume that 'lexically scoped' implied the use of a 'scratchpad'
(was it rather 'my var' implies use of scratchpad)
or does it mean that despite being lexically scoped a 'our' variable is also 'exported' in the namespace ?

Anyone to clear this point ?


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