Hi everybody,

I am trying to improve my understanding of the perl language because I would like to implement some packages as well as possible.
I saw that some pecularities of perl are often used. I understood how they work but I would like to understand when it is really useful to use them (or when we should use them):

1/ BEGIN/END
(in which case it is usefull to initialize variables before compiling all?)

2/ typeglob
(what is the avantage tu use *a instead of $a + @a + %a for exemple.)

3/ sub AUTOLOAD

I know this question is quite large but if you could just tell me when you use these elements that will be great.

Thanks.

In reply to which use for any Perl elements? by mat21

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