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Furthermore, if you don't like looking at all that scary stuff at the beginning of your script, you can place those BEGIN { } code blocks at the end of your script. Won't make a whiff of difference, it'll run just the same.

Randal is right, heed his advice.


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Re: Re: No excuses about not using CGI.pm
by merlyn (Sage) on May 03, 2001 at 19:49 UTC
    Not quite. The import can import prototypes, which need to sucked in before the rest of the code is compiled. Maybe not true for CGI.pm in particular, but I like to show a general template that can be copied for other problems without fear.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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      Actually in general I consider avoiding unexpected prototype conversion a good thing. In which case having a good way to silently ignore unwanted prototypes (and trust me, I rarely want them) is a good thing!
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        But it's not silent (under -w): 
        mysub(1);

BEGIN {
  package Foo;
  require Exporter;
  @ISA = qw(Exporter);
  @EXPORT = qw(mysub);
  
  sub mysub ($) { print "mysub: @_\n" };
}
BEGIN {
  Foo->import();
}

## Output
main::mysub() called too early to check prototype at C:\Projects\GPerl
+\Test\g1.pl line 1.
mysub: 1

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        Though I don't quite understand, if BEGIN blocks are executed before the rest of the containing file is parsed (so sayeth perlmod), why does this happen at all? 
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