Re: making user definable variables really global

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sub dump_data_to_file {
    my $data = $_[0];
    my $file = $_[1];
    $Data::Dumper::Indent = defined $_[2] ? $_[2] : 1;
    $Data::Dumper::Purity = defined $_[3] ? $_[3] : 1;
    my $rcs = defined $_[4] ? $_[4] : 1;
    my $comment = $_[5];
    open(DB, "> $file") or confess $!;
    print DB "# -*-CPerl-*-\n#\n# This file was produced by:\n# $0\n";
    print DB "# at UTC " . gmtime() . "\n#\n";
    if (defined $comment) {
        my $comment_format = "# ^" . '<' x 76 . " ~~\n";
        $ACCUMULATOR = "";
        formline ($comment_format, $comment);
        print DB "$ACCUMULATOR#\n";
    }
    print DB "# Dumper Configuration:\n";
    print DB "# \$Data::Dumper::Indent is $Data::Dumper::Indent\n";
    print DB "# \$Data::Dumper::Purity is $Data::Dumper::Purity\n";
    print DB "# \$Data::Dumper::Terse is $Data::Dumper::Terse\n";
    print DB "# \$Data::Dumper::Pad is \"$Data::Dumper::Pad\"\n";
    print DB "# \$Data::Dumper::Varname is \"$Data::Dumper::Varname\"\n#\n";
    print DB Dumper($data);
    close(DB);
}

    Derek> Dumas Patrice wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >> 
    >> I am struggling with the singular manual, and it appears that if there is
    >> a my variable in the texi2html script, the value cannot be overwrited
    >> by a required file (that is quite logical as the scope of the
    >> variable is then the script file). Thus I am going to remove lots of
    >> my for variables in
    >> texi2html.init and make these variables global (which is hurting me
    >> inside, after all the my variables I did ;-).
    >> 
    >> If somebody knows a better approach I'd be glad to hear.
    >> 

    Derek> Again, how about sourcing the files into a Texi2HTML::Config package
    Derek> or the like?  I'm torn over whether the .init file should contain the
    Derek> "package Texi2HTML::Config" line or not, but it might not hurt.

    Derek> Derek

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