Dave Mitchell wrote: > that makes the blead perl -V on my system expand from 52 lines to 102 >lines. Is that really so terrible? No. The -V output is already much too large to take in at a glance, so there's no real gain from packing. Better to organise the output for clarity, so +1 from me to displaying the options one per line. > I'd accept the suggestion of perl -VV to trigger >one-per-line output, but it seems like overkill. Agreed, especially since the person who'd be making the choice of flags is often not the person who'll be interpreting the output. In practice we need consensus on a single set of output that will be what we ask users to submit for expert examination, and for historical continuity and compatibility we should make -V produce that output. -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next