Is Windows really that brain-dead? Pity it has to sabotage everyone else.
This invokes vim successfully, but leaves an ugly error message around:
perl6 -e 'exit shell("vim sample")'
No such method 'Int' for invocant of type 'Proc'
in block <unit> at -e line 1
On 9/3/18, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not basic: Windows doesn't have it at all, it has to be simulated. The
> intent is that system dependent things like that should be external to the
> core.
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 12:56 PM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply. That didn't show up with any search string I
>> could contrive.
>> It's disappointing to lose a basic ability like handing over control
>> to another program.
>>
>> On 9/3/18, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote:
>> > https://docs.perl6.org/language/5to6-perlfunc#exec
>> >
>> >> On 3 Sep 2018, at 18:41, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In Perl 5, a program can hand over control to another with exec:
>> >> https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/exec.html
>> >> e.g perl -e 'exec vim' opens up vim
>> >>
>> >> What's the Perl 6 equivalent?
>> >
>>
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