This plugin lets you put your lexicals on the stash and elsewhere very easily. It uses some funky modules to get it's job done: PadWalker, Array::RefElem, Devel::Caller, Devel::LexAlias and attributes. In some people's opinion this hurts this plugin's reputation ;-). If you use the same name for two variables with the same storage binding attribute they will be aliased to each other, so you can use this for reading as well as writing values across controller subs. This is almost like sharing your lexical scope. sub bar : Local { my ( $self, $c ) = @_; my $x : Stashed; my %y : Stashed; $x = 100; do_something( $c->stash->{x} ); # 100 $c->forward("gorch"); }