On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:16:49PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: > Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:23:46AM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: > >> Um... You're wrong. If you do need 'startup time' initialization then > >> you should do it in an INIT block. If I may quote from the > >> documentation: > > > > Like it or not, people put lots of init code into BEGIN blocks, if > > nothing else for backwards compatiblity with 5.005. perlcc has to > > compile real world programs. > > Deferring BEGIN blocks 'til runtime will break rather more realworld > program than it fixes I think.
Where is deferring involved? -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Lord of Kwalitee! Wearer of the CPANTS and Slayer of Pseudo-hashes!
