Thanks for the example. Minor quibble, perhaps it's my 5.8 system, but that second print statement does not fail as undefined. Instead it prints '1'.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $x = 1;
BEGIN { $x = 2; }
print $x, "\n"; # 1

BEGIN { my $x = 1; }
print $x, "\n"; # (sic: ) undefined, failure under strict.pm
    # Apr 30, 05:  Actually, mine doesn't fail and prints '1'

my $x = 1;    # 'my' generates a 'masks declaration' warning
{
    package foo;
    $x = 2;
}
print $x, "\n"; # 2

my $x = 1;    # 'my' generates a 'masks declaration' warning
{
    package foo;
    my $x = 2;
}
print $x, "\n"; # 1

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