On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote: > The issue is that there's no way for a translator to know whether > you mean the -d command-line switch or the -d filetest operator. Or I might mean neither. There's absolutely no guarantee that info in the INSTALL file is talking about running or using perl. > I really don't see what else to do. I sympathize with your desire to > write simple text. But I just can't see how to resolve something that > cannot be guessed. There ought to be a way to tell you not to bother to try to guess. =for pod plain or =for pod no warnings or some such pragma. Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu