Now that I've lured you in with such an inflammatory title (g)...
I have a script broken into several pieces. For now, consider 'main.pl' and 'foo.pl' the only players on the stage for simplicity.
I have, in main.pl, declared my %hash. Later on in main.pl, I'm accessing $hash{$foo}{gne} successfully.For some error testing, I was attempting to force $hash{member}{gne} to a particular value in a sub located in foo.pl -- imagine my surprise when I find that, in foo.pl, %hash has no members. With the help of the usual gang, they point me to use vars qw (%hash) or our %hash depending on version & religious preference. One alteration later, and problems solved. However, something bothers me : if my %hash is scoped in main, and exists only in main, why doesn't perl spit out a warning or error when attempting to use %hash in foo.pl? I've got use strict enabled in main.pl, so it seems that such errors would be caught on compilation.

In reply to our/my inconsistency. by boo_radley

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