On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> One-liners run on a Perl 6 binary should just be Perl 6 code.  Do we
> really have to worry about backwards compatibility with one liners?

[ . . . ]
> Hmm... programs that have perl one-liners inside them might be
> troublesome.

Yes, precisely.  I often have one-liners embedded in larger shell scripts.
Most of those survived the perl4->perl5 transition intact.  I'd hope the
same can be said for the perl5->perl6 transition.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

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