in reply to Explanation of 'use strict;'

The comments above are all correct - see Lexical vs. Package Variables (With a little local thrown in) and Help needed understanding global variables in Perl for more info. Or see the results of this query for much more

personally, I think strict should be enabled by default

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Re^2: Explanation of 'use strict;'
by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jan 12, 2005 at 01:37 UTC
    Tiny hint, but, give your post a better title next time, like "what does 'global variable requires package name' mean"?

    ($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
    =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print
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