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On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:51:13 EDT, Dan Sugalski wrote: >At 11:15 PM 8/6/2001 -0500, Tye McQueen wrote: >>All I want is something that ships with Perl. Actually, I >>find the arguments for not rolling this into Perl itself very >>unconvincing. I'd prefer @ARGV to have wildcards expanded >>in the name of portability and provide Win32::GetCommandLine() >>for people who want to write Win32ish command-line interfaces. > >There's also precendent for rolling it in. VMS itself doesn't do wildcard >expansion as part of its command line interface, but perl on VMS does. (We >also emulate the I/O redirection and & backgrounding, but you might not >want to go that far) I don't mind adding a Wild.pm-like thing to the distribution, perhaps even a single-character switch that's an alias for -MWild. But changing the default strikes me as a bad decision. How are we going to explain the breakage to (say) bash users? Sarathy gsar@ActiveState.comThread Previous | Thread Next