note broquaint As others have noted, package declarations bear no relation to the scope and scoping of lexical variables. To clear up how lexical variables and the scopes they live in behave I wrote a node entitled [Lexical scoping like a fox] which I hope is of help. <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-87452"> HTH <p/> <tt>_________<br><u>broquaint</u></tt> </div></div> 419327 419327