Oh great and erudite Monks, edifying are thy words and calming thy code in a mind bent by fascination with Perl.
Please hear my question.

Why does this piece of code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

package Foo;
our $bar = 16;
my  $foo = 15;


package main;
our $bar = "bar\n";
my  $foo = "foo\n";

print "bar = $bar\n"
print "foo = $foo\n"

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Give this error: 
"my" variable $foo masks earlier declaration in same scope at ./b.pl l
+ine 13.
syntax error at ./b.pl line 16, near "print"
Execution of ./b.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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They _should_ be in completely different scopes... shouldn't they??

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