Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote: > I don’t know why. Perhaps because ‘use vars’ already provides package > scoping? > > In any case, I have actually used ‘our’ to be able to access the same > variable in different packages in the same file, without having to > import it into each separate package. I consider that a feature. > Fair enough, ... ..though sharing a global var between different packages in the same file -- you admit that in public?? ;-) and just my luck to use "a" and "b"... (me)-(foot)<-[bang] BUT... this is a problem: { package A; use vars qw($aa $bb $cc); $aa=1; $bb=2; $cc=3; our ($dd, $ee, $ff); $dd=11; $ee=22; $ff=33; } { package B; use vars qw($aa $bb); $aa=4; $bb=5; our ($dd, $ee); $dd=44; } { package A; print "aa=$aa\n"; print "bb=$bb\n"; print "cc=$cc\n"; print "dd=$dd\n"; } ' ---- 'dd' doesn't carry over to future mentions of package A... and while 'aa/bb' do, I have this in from 5.10: NAME vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete) SYNOPSIS use vars qw($frob @mung %seen); ------------------- OBSOLETE?!? What replaces this functionality? as shown above, 'our' doesn't work.Thread Next