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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:01:18PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
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> 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.
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