[Chicago-talk] my my if nothing

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Fast <gdf at speakeasy.net> writes:

>> Well, were you using Apache::Registry?

Greg> Yes, I was.  I guess that's what I tend to mean when I say
Greg> "under mod_perl".

Most serious work under mod_perl is not with Apache::Registry, so I
never assume.  For example, nothing on my web site is
Apache::Registry, and yet the entire site is served with mod_perl.

The Apache::Registry hack surrounds your CGI.pm-compatible script with

package Some::unique::name::here;

sub handler {

        [your script here;
        all of it;
        and then some;]

}

And then invokes that request at the right time.  It's the nested
named-sub-within-named-sub-that-can-see-my-variables that's the
problem, not the block with the my variable.

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