[Pdx-pm] What am I doing wrong?

[Art Burke]

I just installed ActivePerl and am trying it out.

This runs fine:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;

$a = 6;
$b = 7;
print (($a*$b), "\n");

The script below fails with a message that "Global symbol "$v1" requires explicit package name ...". Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;

$v1 = 6;
$v2 = 7;
print (($v1*$v2), "\n");

Thanks!
Art
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