[rt-users] "1;" in the RT_SiteConfig.pm file

[Wagner Pereira]

Thank Roderick and John very much to clarify this "exit code 1;" Perl's 
stuff to me.

My best wishes.

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Wagner Pereira

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Em 18/5/2010 22:49, John Hascall escreveu:
>    
>> Wagner Pereira wrote:
>>      
>>> My 'easy' question is: what this "1;" does at the final? What is its
>>> utility? I don't remember if I had put it there or RT came with it by
>>> default.
>>>        
>    
>>> 1;
>>>        
>    
>> All "good" Perl modules have this as the exit code/value at the end.
>>      
> More specifically, if I may quote from Wikipedia...
>    # A Perl module must end with a true value or else it is considered not to
>    # have loaded.  By convention this value is usually 1 though it can be
>    # any true value.  A module can end with false to indicate failure but
>    # this is rarely used and it would instead die() (exit with an error).
>
> John
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