On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:06:29PM -0700, drieux wrote:
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 11:01 , Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
> >On Jul 15, chad kellerman said:
> >
> >>package Script;
> >>BEGIN {
> >> use Exporter;
> >> @ISA = qw( Exporter );
> >> @EXPORT = qw($serverList);
> >>}
> >
> >Why the BEGIN block? Where'd you pick that up from?
>
> That seems to have been a 'fad' from the perl 5.5.X days,
Oh, it's earlier than that, and easily explained by a quick perusal of
perlmod where it appears as part of the suggested template for a module.
It seems to me to be ultra defensive programming, and I have yet to find
a need for it in the real world (as much as Perl inhabits the real
world.)
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