Vance E. Neff wrote:
> Gunnar,
> 
> Thanks for your response!
> 
> That is what I started with

Which "that" are you referring to? Please do not top post.

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> So you can't do something like this:
> our $variable = "value1" if (something is true);
> our $variable = "value2" if (something else is true);

At http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Statement-Modifiers it's stated 
that the behavior of my() is undefined when modified with a statement 
modifier. Maybe that's true for our() as well.

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