I've recently been working in a Mason web app and am having issues of the Mason compiler seemingly skipping a used modules' INIT. Now I must say my intelligence of Mason's uses are moderate at best, so I may very well be missing something. Plus, I'm working in a quite legacy application that is far from perfect. That said, here is an example.

Example of included module 
package Foo;

use strict;
use warnings;

INIT {
  {
    no strict 'refs';
    *Foo::bar = sub{ return 1; }; 
  }
}

sub new {
  return bless {}, shift;
}

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Example of Mason Page 
<%init>
  use Foo;
</%init>

% print Foo->bar();

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Simple enough. But, in this example, I'm seeing that bar is not defined in Foo. After further (and intense, multiple times on different yet similar issues) investigation, I can find no proof that the code within the INIT block is even getting executed. Even more interesting is that knowing Perl as I do, I can't find any reasonable or logical explanation into why or /how/ this could even be happening (unless, maybe, Mason takes it upon it's self to parse included modules and ignore specific code blocks before adding adding them to the %INC path... but I would hate to believe it does that.)

That's it. Any help appreciated and thanks in advance for your bits of wisdom.

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perl -le '$.=[qw(104 97 124 124 116 97)];*p=sub{[@{$_[0]},(45)x 2]};*d=sub{[(45)x 2,@{$_[0]}]};print map{chr}@{p(d($.))}'

In reply to Mason's interpretation of INIT blocks by wazzuteke

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