Author: particle
Date: 2009-02-09 00:58:04 +0100 (Mon, 09 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 25249
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod
Log:
[S19] various minor updates and removal of stale comments
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-02-08 20:37:02 UTC (rev 25248)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-02-08 23:58:04 UTC (rev 25249)
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
Maintainer: Jerry Gay <jerry....@rakudoconsulting.com>
Date: 12 Dec 2008
- Last Modified: 4 Feb 2009
- Version: 21
+ Last Modified: 8 Feb 2009
+ Version: 22
This is a draft document. This document describes the command line interface.
It has changed extensively from previous versions of Perl in order to increase
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
=item -E *line*
Execute a line of code, with all features enabled. This is specific to
-Perl 5.10, and not relevant to Perl 6.
+Perl 5.10, and not relevant to Perl 6, where C<-e> performs this function.
=item -i *extension*
@@ -180,19 +180,14 @@
=item -s
Enable rudimentary switch parsing. By default, Perl 6 parses the
-arguments passed to a script using the rules defined in this document,
-rendering this switch obsolete.
+arguments passed to a script using the signature suppied by the user
+in the MAIN routine (see L<S06-subroutines/"Declaring a MAIN subroutine">).
-=for consideration
-[This is a bit misleading, insofar as the script's switches are generally
-parsed by the signature suppied by the user in the MAIN routine,
-as in S06. --law]
-
=item -t
Enable taint warnings mode. Taint mode needs more thought, but it's
much more likely that the C<-T> switch will take options rather than
-use a second command-line flag for similar behavior.
+use a second command-line flag to implement related behavior.
=item -u
@@ -219,10 +214,7 @@
=back
-{{TODO for the removed Perl 5 options, address how the same functionality
-can be expressed with the command-line syntax}}
-
=head1 Options and Values
Command line options are parsed using the following rules:
@@ -528,15 +520,13 @@
and C<BUG>. Implementations may expose other components via this
interface, so consult the documentation for your Perl 6 implementation.
-{{TODO more description and examples}}
-
On command line... Subsystem gets...
++X a -b ++/X a -b
# Nested options
+++X a -b ++X -c ++/X -d e +++/X a -b ++X -c ++/X -d e
- # More than once
+ # More than once (both are valid, but the second form is preferred)
++X a -b ++/X -c ++X -d e ++/X a -b -d e
+++X a -b +++/X -c ++X -d e ++/X a -b -d e
