At 09:35 AM 4/9/2001 -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
>At 09:36 AM 4/9/01 +0200, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
>> > > Hmm... programs that have perl one-liners inside them might be
>> > > troublesome.
>> >
>> > Why not:
>> >
>> > perl -e 'perl 5 one-liner'
>> >
>> > perl --cmd 'perl 6 one-liner'
>> >
>> > i.e. maintain the "-e" switch as a backward compatibility flag, with a new
>> > cmd line flag for perl 6.
>>
>>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.
I'm still trying to figure out why the flag needs to change. What's wrong
with -e? It seems perfectly serviceable.
Dan
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