Re: How to initialize a Global in a module

I think i have a basic misunderstanding when the module code is executed and the exported variable $_POST is initialized.

Directly after use YourModule; is parsed, perl search for that module, compiles it and runs its mainline, including the initialization of $_POST.

Minimal-ish example:

$ cat A.pm
package A;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter qw/import/;
our @EXPORT = qw/$_POST/;
our $_POST = 42;

1;
$ perl -I. -wE 'use A; say $_POST'
42
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Re^2: How to initialize a Global in a module by Henric (Initiate) on Oct 26, 2011 at 12:43 UTC
Thanks a lot ... OK, then it can't work this way ... But how can I achieve the desired behaviour ?	[reply]
Re^3: How to initialize a Global in a module by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 26, 2011 at 13:03 UTC
What is your desired behavior? When should the initialization happen? And does it really need to be PHP-like variables? Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]