From 92df035a7821ea55524780fea1af31cb6452742e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chas. J. Owens IV Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:15:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] string do and require don't execute INIT and CHECK blocks --- pod/perlmod.pod | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlmod.pod b/pod/perlmod.pod index eaa8ba9..d6ddd83 100644 --- a/pod/perlmod.pod +++ b/pod/perlmod.pod @@ -311,10 +311,11 @@ in the Perl compiler suite to save the compiled state of the program. C blocks are run just before the Perl runtime begins execution, in "first in, first out" (FIFO) order. -The C and C code blocks will not be executed inside a string -eval(), if that eval() happens after the end of the main compilation -phase; that can be a problem in mod_perl and other persistent environments -which use C to load code at runtime. +The C and C blocks in code executed by C, string C +, or string C will not be executed if they occur after the end of the +main compilation phase (i.e. they are not in a C block); that can be +a problem in mod_perl and other persistent environments which use those +functions to load code at runtime. When you use the B<-n> and B<-p> switches to Perl, C and C work just as they do in B, as a degenerate case. -- 1.7.1.1