local operator). All further unqualified dynamic identifiers will be in this namespace.
A package statement affects only dynamic variables--including those you've used local on--but
not lexical variables created with my. Typically it would be the
first declaration in a file to be included by the require
or use operator. You can switch into a package in more than one place; it
influences merely which symbol table is used by the compiler for the rest
of that block. You can refer to variables and filehandles in other packages
by prefixing the identifier with the package name and a double colon: $Package::Variable. If the package name is null, the main
package as assumed. That is, $::sail is equivalent to $main::sail.
See Packages for more information about packages, modules, and classes. See the perlsub manpage for other scoping issues.