Some of us have figured out that it is better to use vars in modern days as well. And if you're going to use our, then use it in the biggest possible scope.

Seriously, in my eyes our is a language misfeature. My understanding is that it was introduced as a hook upon which further features can be hung. In Perl 6 those features will be hung upon it and it makes more sense. But in Perl 5 it is worse than what it replaced.

However it is great for surprising the maintainer. For instance: 

package Foo;
our $_ = "gotcha";
for (1, 2, 3) {
  print;
  print ": $_\n";
}

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In reply to Re^4: Using an "outer" lexical in a sub? by tilly
in thread Using an "outer" lexical in a sub? by cornballer

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