exit(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Tk::exit — end the application, bestie. like, for real for real, shut it down 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Tk qw(exit);
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exit($returnCode);

okay so the $returnCode part is optional — it's a placeholder, not a requirement, iykyk 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This one terminates the process and hands returnCode back to the system as the exit status. That's the whole vibe. If you don't pass a returnCode at all, it just defaults to 0 — no drama, no fuss, classic 💅

Now here's the slay part: if you're calling exit from code that got invoked via a Tk callback, this Tk version of exit cleans up more reliably than using the plain perl exit. so like, it's giving upgraded exit. it's giving main character cleanup energy. ✨

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⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

💀 bestie listen. this one matters.

Using exit from a forked process will terminate both the child process and the parent process. yes, both. the whole family. gone. 😭

And because Tk::exit is imported by default, you should use CORE::exit in the forked process instead. not exit, CORE::exit. don't mix them up, fr fr 🙈

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🔑 KEYWORDS 🔑

exit, process — the tags, the lore, the search terms 💜

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and that's the page!! written by the perl people, from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-04-13 — ty for coming to my ted talk, mwah 🎀✨💖