Re: subs, eval, and BEGIN

How come u were trying to put it in a begin block?

At 06:28 PM 3/18/2007 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>So I'm trying to make a sub to tr iso-8859-1 to
unaccented ASCII 
>equivalents.  Maybe one already exists, somewhere, but
now that I've 
>gotten this far, I'm confused:
>
>#!perl
>BEGIN {




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On approximately 3/19/2007 12:38 AM, came the following
characters from 
the keyboard of Chris Wagner:
> How come u were trying to put it in a begin block?
>
> At 06:28 PM 3/18/2007 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>   
>> So I'm trying to make a sub to tr iso-8859-1 to
unaccented ASCII 
>> equivalents.  Maybe one already exists, somewhere,
but now that I've 
>> gotten this far, I'm confused:
>>
>> #!perl
>> BEGIN {
>>     

Why not?  tr said it compiled the strings at compile time,
compile time 
sounded like a begin block, but of course eval is also
compile time.  It 
was evolutionary, without quite enough thought at all points
in time.  
That wasn't the only bug....

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