What package does it belong to ?

If you declared it as a package variable, whichever package statement is in effect. In your code, that would be "main".

If you declared it as a lexical variable, it's not found in a package.

What is main package ?

The currently selected package when the interpreter starts.

If I declare $var in a program, does it automatically belong to main package ?

No, the package in effect.

if I use strict, is it required to use main before the $anything ($main::anything) ?

If you declared it as a package variable, no.

If you declared it as a lexical variable, yes. Otherwise, you'll be accessing the lexical variable.

How does $anything become a part of main package ?

I don't understand.

Or does main mean main body (and not subroutines) of program that we are dealing with ?

It's just a namespace into which variables and subs can be placed. It doesn't mean anything.

So does it mean that everything from "#!/usr/bin/perl" to the "print $var; " excluding subroutines is main ?

Absent an overriding package statement, all code (including subroutines) will be compiled into main. That means that package variables and subs will be placed in the main namespace by default.

In reply to Re: main package by ikegami
in thread main package by manishrathi

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