Re: What is the scope of BEGIN? Or... when does it "begin?"

I am puzzled, too. So far I did things like:

use strict;
BEGIN{unshift (@INC,"\\mylib");}
use mylib1;
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Which worked perfectly. After reading argvs node, I tested:

use strict;
use mylib1;
BEGIN{unshift (@INC,"\\mylib");}
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Which produced an error. So far I thought BEGIN{} would be executed always before anything else...

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Re^2: What is the scope of BEGIN? Or... when does it "begin?" by Mutant (Priest) on May 06, 2005 at 08:38 UTC
See tlm's reply above. `use` is impicitly wrapped in a BEGIN. And since BEGIN's have no precedence over each other, your second example is effectively: `BEGIN { require mylib1; mylib1->import(); unshift (@INC,"\\mylib"); }` [download] (I left out 'use strict' for simplicity's sake).	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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