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Re: Subroutine does not sleep

by monkey_boy (Priest)
on Oct 06, 2006 at 14:29 UTC ( #576681=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Subroutine does not sleep

change 
 sub wait{
    my $time =@_;
    sleep $time;
 }

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to 
 sub wait{
    my ($time) =@_;
    sleep $time;
 }

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As in this scalar context $time is being set to the size of @_ (i.e. 1) instead of the value.


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