Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Peter Scott]

At 09:36 AM 4/9/01 +0200, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
> > > Hmm... programs that have perl one-liners inside them might be
> > > troublesome.
> >
> > Why not:
> >
> > perl -e 'perl 5 one-liner'
> >
> > perl --cmd 'perl 6 one-liner'
> >
> > i.e. maintain the "-e" switch as a backward compatibility flag, with a new
> > cmd line flag for perl 6.
>
>One liners are supposed to be SHORT.  `--cmd' is LONG.  If we MUST go
>the multiflagged way, why not reflect `-e' to get the `-6' flag?  At
>the very least, I want a short flag!

But by the time people learned to use '-6' we'd have Perl 7 out.

Whatever we come up with, let's figure out how to avoid having to change it 
the next time we change Perl.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies