Yes, you can directly acess the stash from a
PERL block.
use Template;
my $tt = Template->new({EVAL_PERL => 1});
my $vars = { x => [1,2,3] };
my $text = q{
[%PERL%]
use Data::Dumper; print STDOUT Dumper $stash
[%END%]
};
$tt->process(\$text,$vars);
output:
$VAR1 = bless( {
'template' => bless( {
'_DEFBLOCKS' => {},
'_BLOCK' => sub { "DUMMY" },
'modtime' => 1246384891,
'name' => 'input text',
'_HOT' => 1
}, 'Template::Document' ),
'global' => {},
'inc' => sub { "DUMMY" },
'x' => [
1,
2,
3
],
'dec' => sub { "DUMMY" },
'component' => $VAR1->{'template'},
'_DEBUG' => 0,
'_PARENT' => bless( {
'global' => $VAR1->{'global'},
'inc' => $VAR1->{'inc'},
'_DEBUG' => 0,
'dec' => $VAR1->{'dec'},
'_PARENT' => undef
}, 'Template::Stash::XS' )
}, 'Template::Stash::XS' );