On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:12 AM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
> 1) Looking at other code, I see this at the top a lot: > use v6; > > Mine have as the first line > #!/usr/bin/perl6 > > What is "use v6;" used for? > It ensures that perl 5 will choke if it gets asked to load the file, which can happen on Windows. If you use bash/zsh on Windows then #! will work for things run directly from the shell; anywhere else will be spotty at best, as neither cmd.exe nor Powershell understand #! and neither do the Windows spawn calls. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
