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Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1
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From:
John Porter
Date:
April 5, 2001 15:12
Subject:
Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1
Message ID:
20010405181230.C16652@min.net
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> ETOOMAGICAL. Shades of zip/unzip here. On some systems zip and unzip
> are just hard links to the same binary. It figures out what it
> supposed to do by what name is called. Very magical. Very bad.
Well, the proposed trick for perl would be bad; what zip does
isn't. argv[0] is just another arg, afterall.
> Hmm... programs that have perl one-liners inside them might be
> troublesome.
It shouldn't be. For some reason, I suspect that VERY few
sysadmins are going to install perl6 as /usr/bin/perl on
any machine where that used to be perl5.
Can we make a point right now of NOT having perl6's
configure do that?
--
John Porter
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