Our Declaration

• Declares one or more variables to be valid globals within the enclosing block, file, or eval.
• Has the same rules as a my declaration for determining visibility, but variable is not private.
• Hide variable from use strict 'vars'.

    our TYPE EXPR : ATTRIBUTES
    our EXPR : ATTRIBUTES
    our TYPE EXPR
    our EXPR
  

Examples

    use strict;  # Strict for entire file

    package Foo;
    our $bar;    # $bar is $Foo::bar for rest of lexical scope
    $bar = 582;

    package Bar;
    print $bar;  # prints 582, just as if "our" had been "my"
  

582