#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; INIT { print "in INIT\n"; print "out INIT\n"; } BEGIN { print "in BEGIN\n"; { package Foo; sub new { bless {}, shift }; sub foo { print "I'm a ", shift, "\n"}; } Foo->new->foo; print "out BEGIN\n"; } __END__ in BEGIN I'm a Foo=HASH(0x181af90) out BEGIN in INIT out INIT