in reply to Why no warnings for 1 in void context?

It is so that the convention of ending a module with 1; won't trigger a warning. Modules must return truth, and it's common practice to put a 1; on the last line to satisfy this criteria.

See perlmod for supporting documentation.


Dave

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Re^2: Why no warnings for 1 in void context?
by samtregar (Abbot) on Jul 16, 2005 at 16:54 UTC
    The final line of a required module isn't in void context - it's the return value of the require. Try putting something else there and you'll see there's no warning. I worked with a guy who put (unfortunately copyrighted) poetry in a string at the end of his modules.

    -sam

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      It is actually always in scalar context. I learned this while trying to be a wise ass with Devel::FIXME.

      -nuffin
      zz zZ Z Z #!perl
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      Yeah. I like to end modules with 42;
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