BEGIN and END are added to the stash/symbol table

Does anyone know if this is intentional?

$ perl -le'{package Foo; sub bar {} BEGIN{print "this is the
beginning"} END{ print "this is the end" } } print "symbol: $_" for
keys %Foo::;'
this is the beginning
symbol: bar
symbol: BEGIN
symbol: END
this is the end

I would not have expected BEGIN and END (nor any of the other
"special" subs) to end up in the namespace they are used, but they do.

Cheers,
yves


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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

• BEGIN and END are added to the stash/symbol table by demerphq
• Re: BEGIN and END are added to the stash/symbol table by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: BEGIN and END are added to the stash/symbol table by Nicholas Clark
• Re: BEGIN and END are added to the stash/symbol table by demerphq