Re: ToObject "preamble" Parameter

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> 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.

But we have stuff like MasonX::Profiler on CPAN that relies on having
access to $m in the preamble.  Doh, this is annoying.

I'm inclined to add a 'use_utf8' parameter to the compiler for this, as
Jonathan mentioned.


-dave

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