Dear Monks, This is my first posting to perlmonks.org. Please forgive me my ignorance or any transgressions. My question is about the correct use of "our()" within Perl modules. From http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/our.html it seems like if I declare an "our()" variable in a Perl module, that the simple variable name should be visible from other files that use the library. For example, if I have the following module "junk.pm": 
package Mylib;
use strict;
use warnings;
our $variable1 = "string1";

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and put the following in "junk.pl": 
use lib 'F:/scripts/perl/';
use junk;
use strict;
use warnings;
print("\$variable1 = $variable1\n");

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it seems from the above article that I should be able to access $variable1 without the "Mylib::" package name....but when I check the syntax, I get the following: 
F:\scripts\perl>perl -c junk.pl
Global symbol "$variable1" requires explicit package name at junk.pl l
+ine 10.
junk.pl had compilation errors.

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Any idea where my thinking or implementation is wrong? Thank you, memnoch

In reply to How to use "our()" variables correctly within a Perl module by memnoch

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