in reply to Re: BEGIN block
in thread BEGIN block

Yes, that's what a BEGIN block is generally about, but, in this case, it appears that this BEGIN block with these four assignments occurs after the use IO::Socket::SSL; statement, so that these assignments are executed afterwards.

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Re^3: BEGIN block
by Discipulus (Canon) on Oct 23, 2015 at 07:41 UTC
    oops, it seems i've not seen the use statement!

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