in reply to Most useless function.

is_perl_installed;

would seem to be as about as useless as it could get, as well as quite difficult to implement in Perl for the case returning 'false'.

emc

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Re^2: Most useless function.
by mbeast (Beadle) on Feb 16, 2006 at 18:05 UTC
    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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      sub is_perl_installed {
    if(rand() < 0.5) {
        recursively_unlink(find_perl_on_disk());
        return 0;
    }
    return 1;
}

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Re^2: Most useless function.
by tweetiepooh (Hermit) on Feb 16, 2006 at 22:30 UTC
    Ah someone in the true spirit of the thing.

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