hi i have a problem with initializing perl data structures from the db. i have an init routine that does all kinds of stuff and is called from startup.pl. one of the things i wanted it to do was to grab some stuff from the db and populate a hash with it.
btw, i'm not using Class::DBI and to implement it would be far more work than i'd like to do. it works on perl 5.8.x but not on earlier versions [upgrading is not an option at this time]. so i was looking into other ways to do it. one way that has been suggested is to tie the data structures to subroutines to do the work of getting the data from the db on their first call. any suggestions? -- \js oblique strategy: do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
