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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
April 16, 2001 12:04
Subject:
Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1
Message ID:
20010416200430.A563@blackrider.blackstar.co.uk
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:58:05AM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> Name tricks are ugly, but useful. Perhaps the best solution would
> be to call the new interpreter perl6. If it finds itself being
> called 'perl' or 'perl5' then it should assume perl 5 code
I just worry about users not being aware of this. As I mentioned
eariler, it was very common on systems that had perl4 as /usr/bin/perl
and perl5 as /usr/bin/perl5. People would get these strange errors
from perl and either not think to look at the version and/or not think
that perl5 might be installed under another name. It was quite
common.
It is a servicable solution, just be ready for the extra problems.
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Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One
...and that, children, is how to clean and load a .38 revolver. Questions?
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