My understanding matches japhy at RE: RE: History of 'our'. And here is why (from perldiag in 5.005_03): 
       Use of reserved word """"%s"""" is deprecated
           (D) The indicated bareword is a reserved word.  Future
           versions of perl may use it as a keyword, so you're
           better off either explicitly quoting the word in a
           manner appropriate for its context of use, or using a
           different name altogether.  The warning can be
           suppressed for subroutine names by either adding a &
           prefix, or using a package qualifier, e.g. &our(), or
           Foo::our().

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In general if you get any message from Perl that you do not understand, you should try "perldoc perldiag" and search for that message.

Compare with the related message: 

       Use of %s is deprecated
           (D) The construct indicated is no longer recommended
           for use, generally because there's a better way to do
           it, and also because the old way has bad side effects.

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Which is, of course, what you get when the keyword is deprecated.

So your believing that our was deprecated because someone got that message simply means that you (and they) did not understand the message, and didn't know how to RTFM. Now you do. :-)

In reply to RE (3): Should I use $ and $# ? by tilly
in thread Should I use $ and $# ? by Guildenstern

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