I asked this question at Why is 'our' good?, and I have looked through a number of discussions of the feature.

Not one has left me with the feeling that our is really a good addition to the language.

Perhaps there is something basic that I am missing, but it really seems to me to be a misfeature. For instance in this example just reversing the order is conceptually simpler and doesn't declare $VERSION to be in the current package (even overriding further package declarations). Even aside from the backwards compatibility issue, those facts are more compelling to me than the convenience issue for the occasional case wehre I want to have multiple packages declared in the same file. (Which is the only advantage to our that I see.)

Am I missing something?

In reply to Why would you use our? by tilly
in thread is use strict a compile time directive? by princepawn

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