On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 08:17 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Umm, these days you'd use $dbh->begin_work, right? > > that's funny. that method is not in my docs on my home machine, but it certainly is on the docs at CPAN... i had not seen it before. the extra things that the transaction methods do in Matt's stuff is they keep a count of the number of transactions open and if that does not balance with the number of closed transactions when checked in a DESTROY block then a warning is issued. but besides that, there is no reason not to use the begin_work method.