Hello,

I'm having an issue in a file that declares more than one package. It all boils down to the following example: 
package one;
use strict;
use warnings;
my $var = 1;

package two;
use strict;
use warnings;
my $var = 5;

package main;
use strict;
use warnings;

print "$var\n";
Which gives the following warning an answer: 
"my" variable $var masks earlier declaration in same scope at test.pl line 9.
5
1) Shouldn't the "package" mean a different scope and NOT produce the 'mask earlier declaration' warning?

2) Shouldn't the last line produce an error instead of printing "5" since $var was never defined on 'main' and all packages use strict?

I tried this on Perl 5.010 and Perl 5.014 with the same result.

This really scares me. :-|

Francisco

In reply to Is this a bug in Perl scope? by Zarabozo

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