On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:53:14PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
: ps. Then there's the perl5-behaviour of "perl -n0e unlink" where also
: the intervening switches can get arguments. This could be expanded so
: that all chars for which there's no 1-char alias defined, are
: parameters. So C<-aHellobWo
On 8/18/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:56:30PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
: What about combined short switches like C<-abc> to mean C<-a -b -c>?
: Will perl6 support this notation or not?
Hmm, that opens up a world of hurt. Either you have to distinguish a
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:56:30PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
: What about combined short switches like C<-abc> to mean C<-a -b -c>?
: Will perl6 support this notation or not?
Hmm, that opens up a world of hurt. Either you have to distinguish a
--abc from -abc, or you have to have some kind of fa
On 8/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+To give both a long and a short switch name, you may use the pair
+notation. The key will be considered the short switch name, while
+the variable name will be considered the long switch name. So if
+the previous declaration had been:
+
Author: larry
Date: Thu Aug 17 16:39:38 2006
New Revision: 5
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
Log:
More old use of multiple invocant terminology changed to longnames.
Added mechanism for both short and long switch names.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
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