Re: Can you create *real* global variables?

[lepre]

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[Anno]

Please put <code>...</code> tags around code.

What's to solve? Are you asking why the package variables $main::V1 and $main::V2 aren't defined when foo::fetchvar() is called?

That's because they were never set. Instead, you set the lexical variables (of file scope) $V1 and $V2.

Change the my declarations for $V1 and $V2 to our and your code will do what (I suppose) you expect it to do.

Anno

[lepre]

The "our" declaration is not documented in the second edition of Wall's book (1996). Oh, gosh, it is 10 years old... Time passes by. Thanks.