The print statements are mine, just to see where it was crashing, and I can see it never makes it past the very first tie statement. My question is, what is tie? I've never heard of it.

tie lets you change the basic operations you can perform on a variable. In this case, it changes the default filehandles so that all attempts to print to them do something different. (This implies that your print statements won't do what you think, because you're printing to newly-tied filehandles.)

All of my books tell me that a use is kind-of like a C #include, where it just brings code in, but doesn't execute it. Well, I find that to be false. It brings it in AND executes it. Are the books wrong?

Yes and no. Eventually even C programs execute included code. use loads and compiles the requested code. If that code has any code to execute at or immediately after compilation time, Perl will execute it at the appropriate time. If there's no code to execute as part of the compilation process, any of the requested code will only execute when something else calls it.

In reply to Re^3: USE statement, search method by chromatic
in thread USE statement, search method by kmullin

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