DATA is only meant for read access, how to write to it anyways

By Boris Däppen (‎borisd‎)
Lightning talk
Target audience: Any
Language:
Tags: badpractice fun perl5

You can find more information on the speaker's site:

• Talk: https://gitlab.com/borisdaeppen/Commandline-Presentations/tree/master/App-Unding

The information available in the standard DATA handle is coming from your scripts file. This is why you can't and shouldn't write to DATA. You're only supposed to read, since a write would change the very script which is running.

With App::Unding I will try to make a case, why sometimes it is useful to write to DATA anyways, and how to achieve it technically.

You have been warned: This is for entertaining purposes only!