On 8 December 2015 at 16:22, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > Currently perl -V produces output like: > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > Compile-time options: DEBUGGING HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS > PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV > PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD > PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP > PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL PERL_USE_DEVEL > USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS > USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE > USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME > USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API > > which personally I find very hard visually to spot whether a particular > option is there, particularly due to the mix of ' ' and '_'. I'd like to > change it to something like: > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > Compile-time options: > DEBUGGING > HAS_TIMES > MULTIPLICITY > PERLIO_LAYERS > PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE > PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV > PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD > PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT > PERL_MALLOC_WRAP > PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV > PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL > PERL_USE_DEVEL > USE_64_BIT_ALL > USE_64_BIT_INT > USE_ITHREADS > USE_LARGE_FILES > USE_LOCALE > USE_LOCALE_COLLATE > USE_LOCALE_CTYPE > USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC > USE_LOCALE_TIME > USE_PERLIO > USE_PERL_ATOF > USE_REENTRANT_API > > Any opinions? I think this is a good idea. YvesThread Previous | Thread Next