[Templates] LOAD_PERL parameter

[Sean McAfee]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Keddie, Diane <dkeddie at buffalo.edu> wrote:

>  When creating a template object, the default for the LOAD_PERL
> configuration parameter is 0.  According to the template toolkit manual,
> this option can be set to 1 to allow you to load regular Perl modules as
> plugins.  Is there any disadvantage to changing the LOAD_PERL configuration
> parameter to 1?  Would it affect performance?  Any reason why the default is
> 0?
>
> I may be wrong, but my impression was that the default setting is
conservative simply to avoid surprising the programmer with unexpected
behavior.  I can't imagine it would have any effect on performance at all if
you never load a Perl module as a plugin.


--Sean
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