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kcott
<p>
I may be missing the point you're making but [HJO]'s statement referred to <em>global variables</em>. Other examples with variables explicitly declared as global:
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<code>
$ perl -le 'local $foo = "whatever"; print $main::foo;'
whatever
</code>
<code>
$ perl -le 'our $foo = "whatever"; print $main::foo;'
whatever
</code>
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<p>-- Ken</p>
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