our has lexical scope. 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"{ package Foo;
   our $test = 12345;
   }
 ;;
 { package Bar;
   print 'fully qualified: ', $Foo::test;
   }
"
fully qualified: 12345

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Try the statement
    print 'unqualified: ', $test;
in package Bar.

BTW: Perl 5.14 introduced the neater (IMHO)  package NAMESPACE BLOCK syntax, so the code above could now look like 

package Foo {
    our $test = 12345;
    }

package Bar {
    print 'fully qualified: ', $Foo::test;
    }

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Update: Note that package also has lexical scope!

Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

In reply to Re^3: Is 'use vars' really obsolete? by AnomalousMonk
in thread Is 'use vars' really obsolete? by jnorden

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