Thanks Paul for the perl5005delta inforomation. That's some good information!
Chris
On Friday 22 November 2002 06:13 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Dr. Poo said:
> > This worked perfectly. Why the hell havn't i ever seen INIT before?
>
> You haven't read perl5005delta? INIT is still fairly new - CHECK is even
> newer. Their initial purpose was to help the compiler.
>
> perldoc perlmod for the gory details.
>
> > One more thing though. In my code, i *HAD* BEGIN and END preceded by the
> > sub keyword...Would that have any ill effect to the program?
>
> None whatsoever.
>
> > had this --
> > sub BEGIN
> >
> > In your code you have something like this (the {}'s are different)
> > INIT
> >
> > So i then decided, hmm... i guess i don't need them on any of the
> > "pre-processor" directive. And now i have this,
> >
> > BEGIN
> >
> > Any reason why to do one over the other?
>
> Personal preference. The desire for brevity. Lack of disk space. Dodgy
> "s" on your keyboard. Don't like too much SHOUTING. ;-)
>
> The C<sub> is optional and most people tend to leave it out.
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