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From:
Peter Scott
Date:
April 9, 2001 09:49
Subject:
Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1
Message ID:
4.3.2.7.2.20010409094724.00baa4b0@psdt.com
At 12:38 PM 4/9/01 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>>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.
Because Larry said that by default Perl 6 would assume that its input was
in Perl 5...? So we need a way to tell it that it isn't.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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