in reply to chr() function
You have strict activated when using 5.12.
Write my $alpha = ...
Perl can't tell if it's a private (my) or global package (our) variable.
So it takes a guess and asks you to make it clear by prepending a name space.
our $var is basically an alias of the fully qualified $Pkg::var with the current package at declaration time.
And yes this error message is confusing because nowadays most declarations are done with my , which doesn't have a name space.
Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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