In my original question, yes, that makes sense. But in my clarifying question, in which there are braces around the code in package bbb, why doesn't that set up an independent version of $var which then should get picked up by do_b and thus print out "second time for var"?

Thanks 

package bbb;
{
  use strict;
  use warnings 'all';
  my $var = 'second time for var';

  sub do_b {
    print "In 'bbb' var is set to '$var'\n";
  }
}

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