Richard-

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 10:51:44 AM, you wrote:

> In the meantime, what could we do with "do...as..." that we can't do by
> calling Python/Perl/etc. from the command line via shell?

To avoid repeating myself, see my last comment in the forum thread.
The tl;dr: probably nothing, especially for one-liners, but it gets
progressively more complex once you start executing longer scripts.
And I still think there's a cognitive difference between

do tScript as "perl"
and
get shell("perl" && tScript)

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwie...@ahsoftware.net


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