Dear wise Monks,

I have been using a package I wrote like so ... 

$ cat myscript.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
...

use lib('.');
use MyModule;

...

my $thingy = new MyModule ( 'thing2' );

print "yeah!\n" if $thingy->is_thing();
print "boo!\n" unless $thingy->is_thing();

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I would run my script and get output of "yeah!". The code for MyModule is a file MyModule.pm. It declares an array that is global inside the module. Something like this ... 
$ cat MyModule.pm
package MyModule;

use strict;

my @things = (
        'thing1'           ,
        'thing2'           ,
        'thing3'        ,
);

sub is_thing {
   my $self = shift;
   my $t    = $self->{'thing'};

   return grep /^$t$/, $things; 
}
...
1;

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I decided to move the module in side my script like so I commented out the lines like so ... 
#use lib('.');
#use MyModule;

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... then I made a new script like so ... 
$ cat myscript.pl MyModule.pm > newscript.pl
$ ./newscript.pl
$ boo!

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Now my script behaves as if @things is empty. What did I do wrong?

In reply to Defining a package inside my script? by Plankton

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