-- "Chui G. Tey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have some state data that I need to persist between requests. At the
> moment these are COM objects, but they'll be ported to Perl Classes. It
> is quite important that only one of these instances exist per web
> server. These instances are too large to write and read to file on every
> request. So I have defined the variable as a package level variable.
>
> I have been instantiating the variable in my handler() routine if it has
> not already been instantiated. ie.
Global variables are exactly that: global. If you use
something like:
our $foo ||= somefunc;
or
our $foo = Someclass->constructor( @blah );
then you'll get a value that goes into the symbol table and
is unique w/in the executing process. Thing you'll need to
read up on are global variables, packages/namespaces and
how "use strict" effects things (all of which are in the Camel
or Llama books).
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