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Please tell a perl novice why this is so.

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Re: Re: Re: Ensuring forward compatibility
by eserte (Deacon) on Apr 14, 2004 at 14:59 UTC
    Apache::Registry automatically puts every script in its own namespace, something like Apache::ROOT$script_name. This is so to avoid name clashes in global variables and subroutines, because every Apache::Registry script is running in the same perl interpreter. Putting a "package main" on top of such a script would make the special namespace void and thus name clashes would be possible.

    As a workaround, one could use "package my_distinct_script_name" instead of "package main".

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