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

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Stas Bekman wrote:
> colin_e wrote:
> 
>>Cool. To my (naiive i'm sure) eye this looks just like the behaviour of 
>>a brace-delimited
>>block in a chunk of mainline code, which is what I was hoping/expecting.
> 
> 
> (I guess you are talking about lexicaly scoped vars) plus that any globals 
> which in a normal script:
> 
> $foo = 5;
> 
> will end up in main:
> 
> $main::foo
> 
> will be nuked as well.

Well, keep in mind that <Perl> directives are now processed in a very
similar way other 'phases' are dealt with, so internally, each <perl>
block get's it's own package name. That's what gets wiped after the
<perl> block is finished being evaluated. So if you stick something
in a explicit package name, like $main::foo = 1, that will remain.

> 
>>Some examples of good/bad/dangerous things to do in these <Perl></Perl> 
>>sections
>>would be very helpful though. I can imagine for instance that mucking 
>>around with
>>package declarations inside one could make life complicated.
> 
> It's more simple than that. don't use <Perl></Perl> sections for anything 
> that you can do from real perl.  <Perl></Perl> sections are there only for 
> doing Apache configuration. Anything else, you are on your own. so any 
> example that doesn't deal with Apache config is a bad example.

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