From 56a415e9978ce5f2407fbcc0b3dacb130e470600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Philippe Bruhat (BooK)" <book@cpan.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 08:51:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] clarify the comparison between 'our' and 'use vars'

Fixes GH #22424
---
 pod/perlfunc.pod | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index a6ee7aeaa0a0..2656d13c0ba3 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -5377,9 +5377,9 @@ values:
 
     our ( undef, $min, $hour ) = localtime;
 
-L<C<our>|/our VARLIST> differs from L<C<use vars>|vars>, which allows
-use of an unqualified name I<only> within the affected package, but
-across scopes.
+L<C<our>|/our VARLIST> is lexically scoped, and as such differs from
+L<C<use vars>|vars>, which allows use of an unqualified name I<only>
+within the affected package, without consideration for scopes.
 
 =item pack TEMPLATE,LIST
 X<pack>