From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T05:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: nested methods don't really exist?!

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 04:45:20AM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> You're right on.  I think that nested methods are a bad thing to have 
> especially since invocation of an instance method has side effects on 
> all instances:

FWIW, nested subs in Perl cause horrendous problems. For the gory details,
see http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/perl_reference/perl_reference.html#my____Scoped_Variable_in_Nested_Subroutines

This should be enough to put you off mod_perl for life :-)

Regards,

Brian.