Re: perl6storm #0011: interactive perl mode

[Russ Allbery]

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/>