On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:50:06AM -0700, Quinn Weaver wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> During some debugging, I noticed that MyApp::setup is called twice.
> This looks like an intentional feature. My question is, why?
>
> From MyApp.pm:
>
> my $ret = $self->SUPER::setup( @_ );
>
> From Catalyst.pm:
>
> # Call plugins setup
> {
> no warnings qw/redefine/;
> local *setup = sub { };
> $class->setup;
> }
>
> Yep, the latter code locally redefines the parent class setup to a
> no-op in order to prevent an infinite loop, then calls the child class
> (MyApp) setup. The effect is that every line in MyApp::setup is
> executed twice.
No it isn't. The redefine means it -isn't- called a second time.
But all the plugins' setup() methods (which weren't in @ISA when setup was
first called) -are- called.
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