Thankyou thankyou thankyou...

You have fixed many confusions that I had. I thought that 'use vars' and 'our' were identical, and it did cause me some confusions because some of my code has a mixture of both (pre 5.6 and post 5.6).

I went back and re-read the our documentation in the camel book and it is very precise, and now I understand (I think) what it is talking about.

However, when I went back and re-read the use vars documentation in the camel book, I realize the source of my confusion...

quote (my italics) 

use vars qw($frobbed @munge %seen);

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This pragma, once used to declare a global variable, is now somewhat deprecated in favor of the our modifier. The previous declaration is better accomplished using : 
our ($frobbed, @munge, %seen);

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...

No matter which of these you use, remember that they're talking about package globals, not file-scoped lexicals.

This information had led me astray (it may be technically correct, but it confused me nonetheless).

In closing, I would be really appreciative if you would turn your post into a mini-tutorial.

Thanks,

Sandy

In reply to Re: Re: Re: 'our' scoping by Sandy
in thread 'our' scoping by Anonymous Monk

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