Fellow monks,

A question stroke me recently, what could be a legitimate use of both 'local' and 'our' on a variable in a package?

I wrote the following code to try to figure it out: 

package Foo;
use strict;
use warnings;

local our $V;

sub print_v{
  print $V."\n";
}
1;

package main;
use strict;
use warnings;

$Foo::V = 'Blabla';

print $Foo::V."\n";
Foo::print_v();

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It prints 'Blabla' twice and removing the 'local' on $V doesn't make any difference.

Can you think about any situation where local-izing an 'our' variable could be useful?

-- Jerome Eteve

In reply to Legitimate use for combined 'local' and 'our' by jeteve

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