[perl #36538] perlfunc/our contradicts itself

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perlfunc/our sez:

  The "our" declaration has no semantic effect unless "use strict vars" is 
  in effect, in which case it lets you use the declared global variable 
  without qualifying it with a package name.

Ok, so that means any program should work the same with or without the
"our" statement if 'strict vars' is off.

	our $foo = 42;  # or just $foo 42
	print $foo;

Except its not true.  perlfunc/our goes on to contradict itself in the
next paragraph.

  An "our" declaration declares a global variable that will be
  visible across its entire lexical scope, even across package
  boundaries.

Which means:

	package Bar;
	our $foo = 42;
	package Foo;
	print $foo;

acts different from

	package Bar;
	$foo = 42;
	package Foo;
	print $foo;

strict or not.

I think the thing to do is to reword the first statement such that it no
longer declares our has no effect unless strict is on.

  When C<use strict vars> is in effect, the C<our> declaration lets you
  use the declared global variable without qualifying it with a package
  name.


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• [perl #36538] perlfunc/our contradicts itself by Michael G Schwern via RT
• Re: [perl #36538] perlfunc/our contradicts itself by Steve Hay
• [perl #36538] perlfunc/our contradicts itself by Michael G Schwern
• Re: [perl #36538] perlfunc/our contradicts itself by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes