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On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:00:15 +0200 Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote: > "-0777" flag is the usual way to read the whole file at once (instead > of line by line) in one-liners. > > I feel this isn't ideal. "-0" is a bad flag. It's overly general, > users rarely need $/ to be set to anything other than undef or "\n". > Also, the input record separator has to be specified as an octal > number, which is weird. The fact that the numbers above 0o377 are > special-cased to mean "undef" makes it even more confusing. > > Slurping is an extremely common operation and it deserves its own > one-letter flag. I propse "-g" (mnemonics: gobble, grab, gulp). I wish > it could be "-s", but sadly it's already taken :( This RFC is now accepted as RFC 0011 https://github.com/Perl/RFCs/blob/master/rfcs/rfc0011.md We eagerly await an implementation. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next