(I posted this to the beginning_perl group on Yahoo groups, but the two-
hour wait trie my patience. My apologies if this meesage is not new for
some of you all.)
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Folks;
This is #1 of I'm sure many Perl questions. Thanks to all who help in
advance.
I
On Aug 12, Randy Macdonald said:
However, when I run:
print '';
use NotARealPackage;
print '';
I expect to get:
but I get no output at all. Why is this?
The 'use' statement is special to Perl. It is executed at compile-time,
not at run-time like most of the rest of your code. Because o
> On Aug 12, Randy Macdonald said:
>
> > However, when I run:
> >
> > print '';
> > use NotARealPackage;
> > print '';
> >
> > I expect to get:
> >
> >
> >
> > but I get no output at all. Why is this?
>
> The 'use' statement is special to Perl. It is executed at compile-time,
> not at run-time li
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan) wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> The 'use' statement is special to Perl. It is executed at
> compile-time, not at run-time like most of the rest of your code.
> Because of this, your print() statements are never even executed. In
> fact, only the first
