Nathanial P. Hendler wrote:
>  Yes, I'd read that section several times before posting.  I understand
>  that the setting is enabled at some points, disabled at others, and can be
>  enabled.  I don't have an old version if CGI.pm, and I don't understand
>  what that has to do with anything.  It seems to do more than just setup
>  the global $r object, since it changes the way all my globals behave.
>  
>  I'd like to know if people want access to $r in their modules, and if so,
>  do they pass their modules $r, or do they turn on GlobalRequest, and is it
>  a sane thing to do?

the best and the safest approach is to pass it around.

You could also use a Singleton. There are a few of them on CPAN and there is 
one example how to write your own in the "Practical mod_perl" book.

>  On Fri, 28 May 2004, Stas Bekman wrote:
>  
>  
> >Nathanial P. Hendler wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >>What does GlobalRequest do
> >>exactly, and is there a better way to get Apache->request in modules?
> >
> >http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/config.html#C_GlobalRequest_
> >
> >


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