Buckaroo Buddha recently asked a question about strict in the node looking for Advice on how strict i should really be. In his code he used the keyword our, which is now deprecated. I looked through some reference manuals (not extensively, please forgive) and could not find any info on this keyword.

I tried a little code to see what Perl v5.005_03 had to say: 

use strict;
our $stuff = 5;
print "$stuff\n";

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and received the following: 
Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated ...
Global symbol "$stuff" requires explicit package name ...

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The first line is just a warning, to be expected with the -w option, but the second line is the result of a syntax error, sort of goes against the definition of deprecated I would think. But this has to do with use strict, which doesn't appear to like 'our'.

Can any one tell a little history about the reserved word 'our' and maybe why it is deprecated? Is it similar to Java's protected modifier?

Much thanks :)

In reply to History of 'our' by jeffa

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