Re^2: Writing for backwards compatibility

[xdg]

I think 'our' is often used to avoid having to type 'use vars', but I recently saw a module on CPAN with a surprisingly obvious way of avoiding it. (strict police may want to avoid reading further.)

package My::Module;

$VERSION = 1.23;
@ISA = 'Exporter';
@EXPORT = qw( wibble wobble );

use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter;
# rest of module ...

[creamygoodness]

Also, the third edition of Programming Perl describes the vars pragma as "somewhat deprecated". Current Perl docs don't label it that way...