That's just weird...though I note someone seemed to get 'my' to work below by explicitly telling Readonly::(to use Scalar).

I'm not clear on diffs between our and my -- I thought "our" was to allow a package to have 1 common var among all the objects of same type? (Vs. "my" giving separate copies).

Especially odd as "our" only came in during 5.6...before that... "use vars?" maybe? Still, seems more than a bit arcane.

Thanks,
-l

(at least I'm seeing I'm not entirely delusional...:-)).