Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> =item perl6storm #0011
>> perl w/o args with stdin and out ttys should be perl -de 0.
>> saves novices from typing "perl<CR>" and getting confuddled.
> I think it should print out a banner message, too.
> A couple of times I was wondering whether perl was installed on a
> machine and typed 'perl' to see -- and "nothing happened". (I suppose
> either of `which perl` or `perl -v` would be a better way to find out,
> but still.)
> Having Perl tell me 'this is perl5.7.0\n> ' or similar would have been
> nice. But that's just me.
As long as it's possible to get the current "perl" behavior; I actually
use that a lot.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
