Similar or identical? what would be the difference, if similar?

{
    our $foo = "bar";
    my $quux = "foo";
}
print "'$quux'\n";
print "'$foo'\n";
__END__
''
'bar'
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our and my behave pretty different here, which is why I said "file scoped", which may be wrong. The "syntactical range" of my and our are identical in so far as my variables also are visible within their scope throughout different packages (which scope is different to that of our variables).

our creates a package global, which is visible througout the entire file, even crossing packages. So file or lexical scope is pretty much the same. If "file scoped" means "only visible in that file", then no, our is not file scoped.

Sorry for any confusion caused.

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