Peter Rabbitson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have some trouble understanding why a BEGIN block behaves the
: way it does. Here are two files to demonstrate:
:
[snip code]
: What makes the difference?
'use' and 'BEGIN' blocks are compiled by Perl before our().
So your script is compiled by the Perl interpreter in this order.
: #!/usr/bin/perl
: use warnings;
: use strict;
: use test2 qw($var);
:
: BEGIN {
: print "I see $var but don't see $var2\n";
: }
:
: our $var2 = 'second';
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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