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Tom Christiansen wrote: > [ how to support magical @ARGV better than today ] > If you feed an @ARGV or <STDIN> like this: > > /etc > - > /etc/passwd > /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 > foo.gz > http://somewhere.com/path/to/foofile.gz > /etc/motd > /dev/tty > /tmp/fifo > ~/.exrc > Very cool. Obviously, I wouldn't use it in a place where @ARGV can be passed in via a web page form. But for simple practicality for everyday usage with the flexibility for a program to be used in scenarios never imagined by the original author? Very cool. This is really how I see the origin of Perl. Solving practical problems in ways other languages were a decade or so late in solving. If I want to write a secure application, I'm not sure I would choose Perl. If I did use Perl, or any other language, I would expect to have to put in effort and have a clue. Cheers, mark -- Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>Thread Previous | Thread Next