On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:23 -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> Ah.... does that closure become a global?
>
> package MyApp;
> {
>
> };
>
>
> &MyApp::__ANON__ (ish)?
Not exactly, but it does persist the value of @context. That's what
closures do.
> Makes sense now that I think about it.
> So, in the non MP world, that helps privitize lexicals to certain subs,
> but in MP it causes a scoping issue correct?
It behaves exactly the same in both cases. In a CGI script you will
exit and kill the interpreter after every request, so you'll usually not
notice that the value is the same if you call it again.
- Perrin
