in reply to 'Our' limits?

The following code will work as you expected:

package Foo; our $d; #the only line added sub top { my($fn) = @_; our($d) = ["a", "b"]; printf "Top before %s [%s]\n", $d, join(",", @$d); $fn->($d); printf "Top After %s [%s]\n", $d, join(",", @$d); } package Bar; Foo::top(sub { #our($d) = @_; #removed! printf " Before %s [%s]\n", $d, join(",", @$d); $d = []; printf " After %s [%s]\n", $d, join(",", @$d); });

The lexical scope is bordered by the innermost curly brackets or the boundaries of the file :) You must declare your variable in the lexical scope which includes all scopes where you want to see this variable. This is why i added the line our $d;

If you define the variable $d with our in the different packege, it is supposed to be a DIFFERENT $d variable. This is why i commented out the line in the second package.

See our() manpage for more details.

UPD: added execution result:

Top before ARRAY(0x1a60b7c) [a,b] Before ARRAY(0x1a60b7c) [a,b] After ARRAY(0x1a60bb8) [] Top After ARRAY(0x1a60bb8) []