I agree, and this would also make it easier to compare two perl -V outputs side by side or with a diff than the current format does. -- Dan On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:32 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > Yves >Thread Previous