If you are using our to access data within one package only, why are you making it a global when you could trivially make it a lexical?

Here are the rules I follow. I use my unless there is a specific reason not to. I will use our for certain standard globals that need to be global, such as @EXPORT_OK. When I need to share variables across multiple files I try to use Exporter to export it from one place to all of the places that need it. If that solution won't work, then I will "use vars" for the declaration. I never use our for any variables that I've invented within my code.

I used to not use our for those standard globals. Instead I used to just initialize them before my use strict line. But it has been so long since anyone I care about has been using Perl 5.005 that I no longer worry about that.

In reply to Re^6: My globals are visable; but undef'ed by tilly
in thread My globals are visable; but undef'ed by Wiggins

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