[ic] Tips from Racke

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> At 10:44 AM 10/10/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> >Joachim Leidinger <jojo@blackpoint.de> writes:
> >
> >
> >[...]
> >
> > >
> > > Thank you a lot for the lesson! But when should I use [perl] instead of
> > > [calc]?
> > > Why not using [calc] only?
> >
> >While [perl tables="..."] works, [calc tables="..."] does not.
> >Think of [perl] as an extension to [calc].
> >
> >Ciao
> >         Racke
> 
> I have wondered about this.  Racke, myself and many others have been around 
> long enough to remember the bad old days of [perl arg="scratch values 
> session cgi any_other_damn_thing"] and it was nice when that was no longer 
> needed.  It is possible that the [perl] tag can be made table/file ready, 
> eliminating the need for the tables parameter, or is the price too 
> great?

The price is too great. We must pre-open the tables, meaning that we muswt
import them.

> It would be of much benefit, particularly when using the $Tag-> 
> reference in [perl], because if that $Tag-> touches any tables (like 
> $Tag->shipping())you must include all those tables in the tables list 
> anyway (at least that was the case in 4.6.x, I admit I have not tried it in 
> 4.8).
>

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Depends on what your DBD driver
does. If it does a runtime require when the DB handle is created, then
it will not and cannot work with Safe.

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