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Re^2: Most useless function.

by mbeast (Beadle)
on Feb 16, 2006 at 13:05 UTC ( [id://530719]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in thread Most useless function.

You can create freestanding applications with PerlApp, so you could write a PerlApp to check to see if perl was installed on the host system. That would be 1 (unlikely) use of "is_perl_installed"

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Re^3: Most useless function.
by DrHyde (Prior) on Feb 20, 2006 at 04:55 UTC
    sub is_perl_installed { if(rand() < 0.5) { recursively_unlink(find_perl_on_disk()); return 0; } return 1; }

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