Dr. Poo said:
> This worked perfectly. Why the hell havn't i ever seen INIT before?
You haven't read perl5005delta? INIT is still fairly new - CHECK is even
newer. Their initial purpose was to help the compiler.
perldoc perlmod for the gory details.
> One more thing though. In my code, i *HAD* BEGIN and END preceded by the
> sub keyword...Would that have any ill effect to the program?
None whatsoever.
> had this --
> sub BEGIN
> In your code you have something like this (the {}'s are different)
> INIT
> So i then decided, hmm... i guess i don't need them on any of the
> "pre-processor" directive. And now i have this,
>
> BEGIN
> Any reason why to do one over the other?
Personal preference. The desire for brevity. Lack of disk space. Dodgy
"s" on your keyboard. Don't like too much SHOUTING. ;-)
The C<sub> is optional and most people tend to leave it out.
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