Re: Documentation for ${^GLOBAL_PHASE}

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Tim Bunce <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:36:25AM -0400, Chas. Owens wrote:
>
> are full of "unless", "So long as" and "In those cases" indicates a
> problem.
>
> The description of BEGIN and UNITCHECK suggests that the documentation
> is approaching the topic from the wrong point of view. I suggest
> removing the above and just saying something like:
>
>     BEGIN and UNITCHECK blocks are unrelated to the phase of the
>     interpreter.  They can be created and executed during any phase.

I like the suggestion, but I'm not sure it's entirely true. "Anything
directly or indirectly run from a BEGIN-block in the top-level
compilation unit" exactly describes when ${^GLOBAL_PHASE} will be set to
"START". That may or may not be a good way to think about the START
phase.

For UNITCHECK it's right.

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