An "our" declaration declares a global variable
that will be visible across its entire lexical
scope, even across package boundaries.  The
package in which the variable is entered is
determined at the point of the declaration, not at
the point of use.

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perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); $rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other_name\n"'