I've read every message in this thread and the referenced thread. I've yet to see any code that would behave differently than I expect. However, you're still referring to behavior that "seems odd". Can you post the precise code that puzzles you, so we can follow along better than just some handwaving?

Keep in mind that environment variables are not yet set at the time of BEGIN, which also means they aren't set at the time of any use. If you're setting variables based on that, you'll be very confused.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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update: oops, misremembering about %ENV not being set at compile time. I wonder what it is that I was doing that made me misremember that.

In reply to Re^3: What is the scope of BEGIN? Or... when does it "begin?" by merlyn
in thread What is the scope of BEGIN? Or... when does it "begin?" by argv

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