Re: RFC 290 (v1) Remove -X

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:02:51AM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> =head1 ABSTRACT
> 
> File tests (-r/-w/-x/...) made sense when Perl's shellness was an
> attribute.  Most new Perl programmers are not coming from a shell
> programming background, and the -X syntax is opaque and bizarre.
> It should be removed.

No!  Gratuituous removal of syntax is anti-Perl.  Perl is about
providing options, not taking them away.

MHO,

-Scott
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