in reply to Most useless function.

Most useless? "use less". From the core Perl docs:

use less 'fat';

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Re^2: Most useless function.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 16, 2006 at 20:26 UTC

    Then there is the ever useful variation :)

    no less 'important';

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