Re: Other Globals in %once

On Apr 28, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> Actually, it's only huge if you use an Olson time zone ;)

Yes, but you see my point, I trust.

> I can't even imagine what weirdness would happen if the Request object
> never went out of scope, since it includes references to the interp,
> apachehandler, and Apache request objects.

Right, but I can do that now, even without the globals, by doing this:

   <%once>;
   my $m HTML::Mason::Request->instance;
   </%once>

The current approach of not giving them values before the execution of 
the %once block does not prevent this, and so protects no one from 
anything, IMO.

> Anyway, you can _use_ the globals inside the once section, because 
> there's
> a "use vars" block at the top of the component.  But if you wan to set
> them to something, that's up to you, I think.

And then because they're global, it's fine, yes? So why not just assign 
them before executing the %once block? What does it really gain you not 
to? What does it protect Masonites from?

Regards,

David



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