Just stumbled across this interesting 'strict' complaint: Let's say I want a module that has a function eval_this() which takes a snippet of code and then eval's it in the main package: 
package Foo;
use strict;

sub eval_this {
      my $code = shift;
      $code = "package main; \n$code";
      eval $code;

      die ("Error: $@") if $@;
}

package main;
our $somevar = "somevalue";
Foo::eval_this('print $somevar;');

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Now, as you can see, $somevar has been declared properly as a global in main before the function was called, but yet 'use strict' throws a fatal runtime error: 
Variable "$somevar" is not imported at (eval 1) line 2.
Error: Global symbol "$somevar" requires explicit package name at (eval 1) line 2.
Is there a way around this? 'no strict "vars"' would obviously shut strict up, but I would still like strict's variable name checking. Verified with perl-5.10.0.

In reply to Is strict too strict here? by saintmike

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