>>>>> "PK" == Parag Kalra <paragka...@gmail.com> writes:

  PK> Hi,
  PK> On shell, successful command returns exit status of 0.

  PK> As a best practice what status value shall a Perl function return.

a shell command is NOT a function call. comparing them is useless.

  PK> Going by the fact that Perl function returns the value of last command
  PK> in it, I think function should return non-zero for a success.

and why would you think that? how would you know what the real return
value is (from return) if it returned non-zero for success? try to define
success for all functions?

uri

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