> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Falkenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:50 AM
> To: Beginners (E-mail); Beginners-Cgi (E-mail)
> Subject: UNIQUE ID problems...
>
>
> List,
>
> Interesting problem that I think proves just how much I
> really don't know about Perl.
>
> I have copyied most of this variable from the internet...
Ouch. Some of the worst crap imaginable can be copied from the internet.
>
> my $unique_id = time && 0xFFFFF && $$;
>
> ALL I know is that this uses Unix time and some sort of
> process ID and also adds some other magic stuff to it.
Whoever wrote this is a moron. The result of this expression will always be
the process id. The && is a logical "and" operation. The three values,
time(), 0xFFFFF, and $$ will always be "true". The result of stringing a
bunch of true values together with && will be the rightmost value, namely
$$.
I would avoid this idiot's code like the plague...
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