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in reply to Help! My variables are jumping off a cliff!

From the docs:
strict vars
This generates a compile-time error if you access a variable that wasn't declared via our or use vars, localized via my(), or wasn't fully qualified.
You're not doing any of those things, you're just not not doing one of them twice.
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