It's not a terrible approach - I use something similar for a particular set of projects but with 2 important differences:

  1. I put them inside a package so they are properly namespaced (you might be doing that already, but there was no package statement in the code shared so far). See also the recent discussion in Common subs and Global Variables about why global variables aren't always the best idea.
  2. I use constants for items of data which won't change during a run.

Example (but with the package inlined just for ease of illustration):

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

package MyStuff {
    use constant BODPLAN => 'Have a separate dev server';
    # ... more constants here
}

print "Bod's plan: " . MyStuff::BODPLAN . "\n";

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In reply to Re^5: Holding site variables by hippo
in thread Holding site variables by Bod

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