I guess to be really pedantic that should be it shares a copy with stuff declared in the same scope at the same time.but functions declared on entering the same scope later get their own set of shared variables. I take your point though and stand corrected.
I read CountZero's reply and I now understand the OP's concern but I don't see that debugging a variable that has leaked into a closure is any harder than debugging the same problem with regular functions.
my $var;
sub the_first {
$var = func1();
}
# many, many lines of code later
sub the_second {
$var = disfunction();
}
and in most cases the closures are declared together so it is probably easier to spot.
I think the answer is to be careful with variables, restricting them to as small a scope as possible and to have as few as possible with file scope.
