Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Dave Storrs]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Scott wrote:

> At 09:36 AM 4/9/01 +0200, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
> >
> >One liners are supposed to be SHORT.  `--cmd' is LONG.  If we MUST go
> >the multiflagged way, why not reflect `-e' to get the `-6' flag?  At
> >the very least, I want a short flag!
> 
> But by the time people learned to use '-6' we'd have Perl 7 out.

        We could then just add a -7 flag.  That's not necessarily bad;  
Perl 7 will probably face the same issue...it needs to be able to eat Perl
[567] code without barfing, but it needs to know what it's getting.  Also,
the flag would be a good choice in that it's very human-readable.

                                Dave