Contrary to the example you gave previously, you now seem to have the two snippets in question in different files. Which means that they don't share a lexical scope. So my explanation with lexical aliases doesn't apply in the new case.

A lesson you can learn from is that it's not efficient to ask very general questions first, if you really want to solve a specific problem; neither is asking a question that doesn't actually demonstrate the problem.

To answer your question, you need to either declare a lexical alias in each scope, to the same variable in the same package, or you need to qualify the namespace in one of the locations: 

{
    our $ERRORFILE = 'foo';
}
{
    package RecordError;
    print $main::ERRORFILE, "\n";

}

[download]
Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.

In reply to Re^5: globally seen variable by moritz
in thread globally seen vairable by vit

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.