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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