BEGIN blocks

2001-07-19 Thread Miles Sapp
Hi, Can someone please explain what a BEGIN block does? I see from my books and online documentation that BEGIN blocks are run at compile time and are run only once, but I'm not sure how that's different from any other perl code that's not in a loop. Also, in my test script (below) the block wou

Re: using mime lite

2001-07-17 Thread Miles Sapp
I copied and pasted the code that was suggested for Carp (below) and ran it and I can't get it to work. Does anyone know what's wrong with it? Thanks Miles > use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message); > > BEGIN { > sub handle_errors { > my $msg = shift; > print h1('Oh gosh'); >