I don't reccommend using our "as an alternative to my" under mod_perl. They don't do the same thing, and mod_perl doesn't change that. If you are using "our" because your code has unintentional closures around "my" variables that showed up when you used mod_perl, you should really change your code to fix this problem. It can bite you in other ways, and "local our" is a pretty nasty construct.