I think 'our' is often used to avoid having to type 'use vars', but I recently saw a module on CPAN with a surprisingly obvious way of avoiding it. (strict police may want to avoid reading further.)
package My::Module;
$VERSION = 1.23;
@ISA = 'Exporter';
@EXPORT = qw( wibble wobble );
use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter;
# rest of module ...
-xdg
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