On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 02:14, Florian Ragwitz <r...@debian.org> wrote:
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> Obviously it needs an entry in perlvar, but I don't think explaining
> all the details of it there is appropriate. "BEGIN, UNITCHECK, CHECK,
> INIT and END" in perlmod explains many things related to
> ${^GLOBAL_PHASE}, but it does so from the perspective of a single
> module, i.e. one compilation unit, for which most of the behaviour of
> the new variable is irrelevant, as that's only concert with global
> phases. Also it'd seem somewhat unlikely that anyone would look up
> "perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)" to read about the
> phases of the interpreter.
snipMy gut reaction is that the values need to be documented in perlvar in a similar way to how you have listed them here and a mention of it should be in each paragraph of perlmod that deals with BEGIN, INIT, etc. I will throw something together tonight. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.
