On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: > > defaults". For example, using Perl5 syntax, here's what I mean: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[snip] > > perl -e 'unlink <*.txt> :v' > > Well it's certainly not going to be that, since the <glob> operator is > going far, far away. Well, that's reasonable after all... > At first I thought it would be a good idea to just make it a perl > command-line argument: > > perl -ve 'unlink glob "*.txt"' > > Since it would seem that one-liners would be their primary use. But now Well, for one thing -v will already be taken for something else anyway. OTOH I think that even in one-liners there would be cases in which one may want to turn on verbosity selectively for certain functions and not for others. > I think about the many times I've written in longer scripts: > > print "Moving $old to $new\n"; > rename $old => $new or die "Move failed: $!\n"; > # ... > > And indeed I would love to have written: > > rename $old => $new :verbose; > > Instead. Hehe, you got the point!! Michele -- > ....tranquilli,scherzavo :-))) E perche? Accoppiata a una fusoliera in piombo, che se sbatte si ammacca ma non si rompe, mi pare una buona idea... - Salvatore Ciambra su it.hobby.modellismo, thread "Re: Ala in ghisa"