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From: "Keith Worthington" <keithw@narrowpathinc.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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Subject: Re: plperl user function
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:07:27 -0400
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:52:32 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote
> > 
> > This leaves me with two questions.
> > 1)  Why can I not use "use strict;" or "use warnings;" as they
> > are apparently good perl programming practice.
> [snip]
> > Kind Regards,
> > Keith
> 
> Actually it is excellent practice so don't feel bad. The reason you 
> can't use them is that in order to support them in plPerl you have 
> to access the module. The module itself is a file on the filesystem.
> 
> You can not open files on the filesystem via a plperl function 
> unless you install it as untrusted.
> 
> Try installing plperlU and then running your function.
[snip]
> Sincerely,
> 
> Joshua D. Drake

Well, I am blown away by how this stuff works.  After a createlang command I
put the two use commands back into my function and changed the language.  Now
all I have to figure out is the RETURN problem.

Another question:  Is there an issue with using the untrusted perl language? 
If the code is tested and working is there any real reason to continue to have
"use strict;" and "use warnings;" in the function?

Kind Regards,
Keith