I have written the following module to hold configuration constants for a program I am writing. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

package SFConfig::Globals;

use strict;
use Exporter;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT);

@ISA = qw(Exporter);

@EXPORT = qw(TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY);

sub     TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY      ()      {"/srv/www/vhosts/spamfilter.o
+nlineky.net/Templates"}

1;

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I would like to use these constants in the rest of my programs like so: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use SFConfig::Globals;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $test = SFConfig::Globals::TEMPLATE_PATH;
print "$test\n";

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Whenever I run the script above on my Suse Linux 10.2 box with Perl 5.8.8 installed, I get the message "Bareword "SFConfig::Globals::TEMPLATE_PATH" not allowed while "strict subs" in use". When I run the exact same code with the exact same module on my Windows XP box with ActivePerl, it works just exactly as I would expect, printing the contents of TEMPLATE_PATH. On both machines, I saved the module in the site_perl directory. What else could I be doing wrong?

In reply to Errenous behavior from Exporter by dirtdart

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