Re: Scope of Perl Special Variables

2002-05-05 Thread Bill Catlan
Stas Bekman wrote: This explains why by default %ENV is set for each request afresh. http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#PerlSetupEnv_Off Great. Thank you Stas. Now I know /how/ that happens, but I don't know /why/ the existing inctances' ENV is not clobbered. My guess is that a

Re: Scope of Perl Special Variables

2002-05-05 Thread Bill Catlan
I thought that using 'local' would successfully scope those globals to within a sub, so you could,k for example, slurp an entire file by doing: local $/ = undef; my $file = FH; Or am I wrong in that? I use it frequently, and don't seem to have any troubles. --Jon R. It is my