ch09.053_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 9 of "Perl Best Practices"    ##
##     Copyright (c) O'Reilly & Associates, 2005. All Rights Reserved.      ##
##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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# Standard modules...
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;

sub get_server_status { return 'foobar', 100, 0.02, 7; }
my $server_ID;

# In list context, return all the available information...
my ($name, $uptime, $load, $users) = get_server_status($server_ID);

use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
warn Dumper [
    $name, $uptime, $load, $users,
];