Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:31:37PM -0800, perlbug@plan9.de wrote:
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> The perlrun documentation for -M/-m says:
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>    Note that the "=" form removes the distinction between -m and -M.
> 
> I don't think this is correct. The distinction between -m and -M is that
> one doesn't call import and the other does. While = can make -m call
> import, there doesn't seem to be a way to get the effect of -mX with
> -MX=..., i.e. -M always results in import being called.
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> This is consistent with the documentation for "=": the split... expansion
> is never an explicit empty list as required by use to get the effect of
> "-m".
> 
> That also means that, if I was just too dense to figure it out and there
> IS a way to get no important from -M, then the description of the "="
> expansion is wrong.
> 


I added half a line of additional explanation with commit ef1f3bf.


Abigail

• [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by James E Keenan via RT
• [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by perlbug @ plan9 . de
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Abigail
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Brad Gilbert
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by A. Pagaltzis
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Zefram
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Abigail
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Marc Lehmann
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by demerphq
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Marc Lehmann
• Re: [perl #121078] perlrun -M documentation minor error by Marc Lehmann