31.21. use vars
use vars qw($frobbed @munge %seen);
This pragma, once used to declare a global variable, is now somewhat
deprecated in favor of the our modifier. The previous declaration
is better accomplished using:
our($frobbed, @munge, %seen);
or even:
our $frobbed = "F";
our @munge = "A" .. $frobbed;
our %seen = ();
No matter which of these you use, remember that they're
talking about package globals, not file-scoped lexicals.