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

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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.

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