Once you run the above at the very beginning of your script, it'll pull out $r out from thin air from that point on. that's exactly what +GlobalRequest does.
True, but since it is not necessary to do this first operation with mp1, when you use Apache::compat with mp2 this should be done for you.
Otherwise I suggest renaming Apache::compat to Apache::compat::almost ;-)
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