On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:01:18PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote: > > So I'm wondering if it would be better to have a more generic > ${^STATE} that could also indicate other states beyond global > destruction, e.g. inside BEGIN/INIT/CHECK/END blocks, or running > during sitecustomize.pl etc. (Bikeshed: perhaps ${^STAGE} or ${^PHASE} would be a beter name.) > At the application level you can > always pass this information yourself, but an interpreter provided > state would help generic CPAN modules. However, I've never needed > these other states so far, so maybe it is overkill. NYTProf could certainly make use of this. Tim.Thread Previous | Thread Next