Re: [FWP] Kill 'em all and let God sort it out

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 03:12 PM 3/15/01 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> writes:
>
>   PS> Having utterly failed to crack Schwern's conundrum, the only thing
>   PS> to do is pose one of my own, this one evaluating to an IMHO more
>   PS> familiar quotation:
>
>   PS> fork ? exit : POSIX::setsid && (grep { $_ eq ref } @ARGV)[-1]
>
>my first guess is children should be seen and not heard. but i can't
>figure out the mapping to the code.
>
>the setsid call makes the child have no terminal so it can't be heard
>from.

On the right track :-)

>$_ eq ref will only be true for $_ = ''. where that fits is unknown to
>me.

Well there's some license there, but it could also be true for classes 
overloading stringification.  "overload" is not part of the answer :-)

--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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