And here I was under the impression that my pointing out the trick was a comment.. :-D

Seriously now, you're right that it does make that section of the code depend on position. Which I don't see as a horrible thing - no worse than a lexically scoped variable. And certainly not in boilerplate initialization code which many people who use it won't expect to understand.

If you're uncomfortable with that fact you can always declare the variables as is usually done. In fact I pointed out that I'd done it so that people could make that choice.

Also I deliberately didn't comment on the mechanics. If I thought that the mechanics required commenting on within the code, then I'd first try to solve that by changing the mechanics, not commenting the code.

In reply to Re^3: standard perl module and BEGIN block. by tilly
in thread standard perl module and BEGIN block. by hartzell

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