Hi All,
In a nutshell my question is this: how do you get a signal handler to print the contents of a lexically scoped variable?

For those who need a code example please view the following as a summary of the problem

$SIG{INT} = sub { die "borked on $var"; };

alarm(1);

while(1) {
  my $var = "wibble";
}

alarm(0);

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Now that is an extreeme example as sigint will be called everytime. But I think it makes my point.

When ran under use strict I get the following error message:
Global symbol "$var" requires explicit package name...

Other than putting this var into global scope is there anyway I can pass the var to the signal handler?

TIA

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