Ah. It looked like one of those "between you and me it's a miracle this works, and sometimes it doesn't" sort of warnings !

Documentation http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmod.html says "In addition, when unqualified, the identifiers STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, ARGVOUT, ENV, INC, and SIG are forced to be in package main , even when used for other purposes than their built-in ones."

But, it is now clear that I should have understood "unqualified" to mean "unqualified by a package name" (not "unqualified by any 'decoration'" -- doh!)

So I'll go away and stop worrying about it ! I don't need the export, and even if I did, it would be OK.

Thank you.

In reply to Re^4: sub STDERR { *STDERR } -- nearly works ! by gone2015
in thread sub STDERR { *STDERR } -- nearly works ! by Anonymous Monk

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