Re: [FWP] Package shadowing

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Feb 12, Tim Ayers said:

>  package foo;
>
>  my $a = 'foo';

Packages don't matter.

>  sub foo { "foo::a=$a" }

That's not $foo::a.

>  package bar;
>
>  my $a = 'bar';
>
>  sub bar { "bar::a=$a" }
>
>  package main;
>
>  print foo::foo(), "   ", bar::bar(), "\n";

my() variables are not related to any package at all.  $foo::a doesn't
exist.  There is no means of creating a package variable that can't be
accessed from outside its owning package (unless you do some crazy
tie()ing thing).

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