>> (A solution would be to force all "my" varialbes at the file scope to >> be "our" and then put the cgi in an anonymous package:) > > A file/package-scoped "my" var is not the same thing as an "our" var. One > example is that a "my" var can't be seen outside of the package/scope it's > in. A package level "our" var can be seen.
Yes, I know. Hence the anonymous, unnamed package idea. But it's really silly. Better warnings or more clear docs would be sufficient. Just the concept that a top-level $my isn't good enough to localize a variable seems to boggle until you realize what ::Registry is doing.
