my variables are lexically scoped, and can't be exported. Outside their scope, they can only be accessed or modified via a hard (non-symbolic) reference. You can learn alot about exporting, global variables, symbol tables, and aliases by actually reading through the Exporter.pm source code (it's a bit hairy at times, though you will learn a great deal). As of Perl 5.005, you can leave off the use vars and use the our declaration; though you may want to read this node before you sprinkle your code with our statements.

   MeowChow                                   
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