Hmm, your coworker is exhibiting false laziness. While I normally agree with building an array (not a list) of variable names, I usually use it in a hash slice.

As far as I understand it, you need to declare variables first, then export them, under strict: 

our ($MC_CONFIG_DBI_DRIVER,
              $MC_CONFIG_DB_NAME,
              $MC_CONFIG_DB_USER,
              $MC_CONFIG_DB_PWD, 
              $MC_CONFIG_FILE,
              $MC_CONFIG_FEED_LOGS,
              $MC_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_LOGS
);

our @ISA = qw( Exporter );

our @export = ($MC_CONFIG_DBI_DRIVER,
              $MC_CONFIG_DB_NAME,
              $MC_CONFIG_DB_USER,
              $MC_CONFIG_DB_PWD, 
              $MC_CONFIG_FILE,
              $MC_CONFIG_FEED_LOGS,
              $MC_CONFIG_ARCHIVE_LOGS
);

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Using symbolic references to avoid a simple cut-and-paste (especially as it's actually *appropriate* in this case) is a punishable offense.

One more thing, your coworker is a little confused on the difference between a list and an array: 

our vars = ($one, $two, $three);  # a list
our vars @array;    # an array and an error

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In reply to Re: How to set a set of our and @EXPORT variables concisely? by chromatic
in thread How to set a set of our and @EXPORT variables concisely? by princepawn

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