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in thread CSH script that calls a perl script

Would you be happy with your Perl script returning 0 for success and 255 for failure? If so, take note...

$ perl -e'die'; echo "GOT $?"
Died at -e line 1.
GOT 255
$ perl -e'exit'; echo "GOT $?"
GOT 0

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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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