I am trying to apply some Software Engineering code management to what is becoming a very large hunk of code. I am trying to break this down into functional "hunks" of no more than 100 line or so. The code would still be co-operating and using global data from main.

"Perl does not patrol private/public borders within its modules--...." Programming Perl 2nd Ed. Pg 287.

This code is a minimalist example of my problem. The global data in 'main' is coming up undefined when read from the package. 

use strict;
require "pit.pm"; ## also use or require w/o quotes

my $Email="abc\@example.com";
print "1) $Email\n";

 pit::printIT();

print "1) $Email\n";
print "1) done\n";

#use pit; ## doesn't work here either

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Here is the pit.pm 
package pit;
sub printIT {
  my $xyzzy = $main::Email;
  print "2) #xyzzy\n";
}
1;

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Running gives: 
wf13[~]>perl testGlobal.pl
1) abc@example.com
2)
1) abc@example.com
1) done

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What do I have to do in main to let other packages read my $main::Email variables?

In reply to My globals are visable; but undef'ed by Wiggins

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