I am trying to figure out the scoping rules for "our" variable types. I have the following two questions:
1) If I have decared a variable x in packages Foo, Bar and in the main program, what would be the output of the program below?
2) What would happen if I use the "use strict" option? Thanks in advance!

# Begin Package Foo
package Foo;
our $x = 1;
# End Package
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# Begin Package Bar
package Bar;
our $x = 2;
# End Package
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# Main Program
use Foo;
use Bar;

our $x = 3;

print "x without package reference = $x";
print "Foo x = $foo::x;        # Output should be "Foo x = 1"
print "Foo x = $bar::x;        # Output should be "Bar x = 2"

$x = 4;
print "x without package reference = $x";
print "Foo x = $foo::x;        # Output should be "Foo x = 1"
print "Foo x = $bar::x;        # Output should be "Bar x = 2"
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