Re: is 1; at the end of a PM still necessary in 5.6.1 ?

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Re: Re: is 1; at the end of a PM still necessary in 5.6.1 ? by Cirollo (Friar) on Jul 23, 2001 at 17:22 UTC
It won't be hard to see and probably won't get deleted if you use it the way perlmod does: (thanks crazyinsomniac) `1; # don't forget to return a true value from the file` The comment makes things a lot clearer, and should make someone think twice before deleting it.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: is 1; at the end of a PM still necessary in 5.6.1 ? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jul 23, 2001 at 06:17 UTC
I really don't know what `return` from the main top-level code of a module does. I tried changing the 1 to `return 1; # script loaded OK.` [download] on the PM I'm working on, and nothing changed. So I suppose it's just fine. I'd do without the extra parens, though: return is not a function, and I'm not expecting it to be "called" in list context. —John	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: is 1; at the end of a PM still necessary in 5.6.1 ? by petral (Curate) on Jul 23, 2001 at 16:59 UTC
The other way to go is just: `1` [download] then if you put anything after it you get an error. But I've said this before and I'm sure everyone else considers it bad practice and I suppose their right. It just always seems counterproductive to me to add the ';' when that only serves to hide it. p	[reply] [d/l]


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