Re: Help Explain Behavior

Your running the script after it is loaded (and compiled) into memory.

So the code can still be executed after the original source file vanished.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^2: Help Explain Behavior by Joe_ (Beadle) on Aug 19, 2012 at 17:20 UTC
Yes I figured as much. But that's exactly what's been bothering me. You say the script has been already compiled! How is that? I thought Perl is interpreted. Please pardon my ignorance and enlighten me...	[reply]
Re^3: Help Explain Behavior by LanX (Saint) on Aug 20, 2012 at 21:45 UTC
Your source is compiled into an internal form (a parse tree) which is then optimized before being run. Cheers Rolf	[reply]