Re: ToObject "preamble" Parameter

Dave Rolsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.mason.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, David Wheeler wrote:

> On Sep 28, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
> > So what's the problem?  Why would 'use utf8' need to come before that?
> > The whole purpose of 'use utf8' is to make sure Perl handles UTF8 chars
> > in the source code properly.  Since we know wha the "set the request"
> > code
> > looks like, we can know it doesn't need 'use utf8'.
>
> The preamble is output to the object files *after* the %once block.
> What if I have UTF-8 encoded data in the %once block? This is exactly
> the problem I ran into on the Radio Free Asia project.

Doh, I get it.  And on reflection, it doesn't particular make sense to
provide access to $m in the preamble, since we don't provide it in the
<%once> block, and the preamble is kind of like a <%once> block that is
set for every component.


-dave

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