$nextstream = 0;
%stream = ();
+use vars qw($VERSION $BRANCH);
+$VERSION = sprintf( "%d.%03d", q$Revision$ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/ );
+$BRANCH = sprintf( "%d.%03d", q$Revision$ =~ /\d+\.\d+\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/ ) || 0;
+$main::build += $VERSION;
+$main::branch += $BRANCH;
+
# allocate a new stream for this request
sub newstream
{
{
my $s = readfilestr($dbbase, "dbs", "pl");
if ($s) {
- my $a = { eval $s } ;
+ my $a;
+ eval "\$a = $s";
confess $@ if $@;
- %avail = %{$a} if $a
+ %avail = ( %$a ) if ref $a;
}
}
$name =~ s/.*:://o;
confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
+ # this clever line of code creates a subroutine which takes over from autoload
+ # from OO Perl - Conway
+ *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub {@_ > 1 ? $_[0]->{$name} = $_[1] : $_[0]->{$name}} ;
@_ ? $self->{$name} = shift : $self->{$name} ;
}