But this: perl6 -e 'shell("vim sample"); exit'
behaves acceptably. On 9/3/18, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >>> > >>> >> >> >> -- >> brandon s allbery kf8nh >> allber...@gmail.com >> >