Errin Larsen wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:31:36 -0400, Ed Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Errin Larsen wrote:
>>> Hi Perlers,
>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>
>>> if( kill 0 => $pid ) {
>>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Forgive me if I presume too much, but shouldn't the above be:
>>
>> if( kill 0, $pid ) {
>>
>> perldoc -f kill
>>
>
> Jenda is correct. I like to think of '=>' as "The FANCY comma!!".
> It's just a pretty way of typing a comma for just such an occasion
> when you want you code to reflect what you're doing. So, in the
> above, I'm sending a signal to $pid, so the big arrow "shows" that
> the signal (0) is being sent to that process ($pid)! Perl is Fun!!!
>
> This works great (and is seen most often) in hash declarations:
>
> my %demo_hash = (
> Key_One => 1,
> Key_Two => 2,
> Key_Three => 3
> );
I stand corrected. Sorry it wasn't an easy solution. :)
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