Re: <Perl>...</Perl> and startup.pl equivalent?

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Stas Bekman wrote:
> colin_e wrote:
> 
>>Good stuff. Thanks for such a quick and helpful reply Stas.
>>
>>The piece in the docs that had me confused was in the document
>>"Apache::PerlSections - Default Handler for Perl sections"
>>(http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache/PerlSections.html#C__Apache__PerlSections__Save_). 
>>
>>
>>This says:
>>
>> > By default, the namespace in which |<Perl >| sections are evaluated 
>>is cleared
>> > after each block closes. By setting it to a true value, the content 
>>of those
>> > namespaces will be preserved and will be available for inspection by 
>>modules
>> > like |Apache::Status 
>><http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache/Status.html>;|.
>>
>>My grasp of perl is limited, "clearing a namespace" sounds to me like 
>>something goes
>>away. At this point i'm not entirely clear what, but i'm glad I have an 
>>answer to work
>>with.
> 
> Good question. Philippe wrote this part. Philippe, could you please expand 
> that section with some examples explaining what's exactly happening? I 
> agree that it's quite vague and I'm not sure what did you mean there myself.

It means that if in a <Perl> section you do something like :

<Perl>
$foo = "bar";
$Some::Global::var = 123;
Something->init($foo);
</Perl>

That once this code has been run, $foo goes away. As with the example of using
'use lib' to push tings into @INC, that's pefectly safe. Only the code (and vars)
local to the block of <Perl> gets flushed. $Some::Global::var would survive, for
instance.

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