> Basically, the ($p) puts it into a list context rather than
> a plain old scalar context.
What I don't understand is why
my($p) =Net::Ping->new("icmp",5,64);
doesn't work? I looked at the code for Net::Ping and it
doesn't seem to call wantarray, so why would it care?
We use the my($p) syntax all over and always "use strict"
and nairy a beep?