(tye)Re: New time-related function for Perl

+PP(pp_epochtime) +{ + dSP; + EXTEND(SP, 1); + PUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSViv(0))); + RETURN; +}
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Yes, this just returns 0. It appears to be an April Fool's joke that many (including the producers of "This week on p5p") didn't get (probably because it wasn't funny).

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: (tye)Re: New time-related function for Perl by chipmunk (Parson) on Apr 02, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
Well, I thought it was funny, especially because the patch included updates to the documentation and the test suite! A joke doesn't have to be obvious to be funny.	[reply]
Re: (tye)Re: New time-related function for Perl by Dominus (Parson) on Apr 04, 2001 at 23:20 UTC
Says tye: many (including the producers of "This week on p5p") didn't get Simon did indeed get it. Don't give yourself so much credit.	[reply]