Author: moritz Date: 2010-06-11 09:53:58 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31190
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] more elaborate $*OUT/$*ERR selection for USAGE printing This should make both avar++ happy who wants './prog --help|less' to DWHM, and also TheDamian, who wants in good UNIX tradition a pipe of the form './prog | sort > file' to print usage messages to $*ERR to catch mistakes. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod 2010-06-11 06:11:20 UTC (rev 31189) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod 2010-06-11 07:53:58 UTC (rev 31190) @@ -3102,8 +3102,11 @@ If an attempted dispatch to C<MAIN> fails, the C<USAGE> routine is called. If there is no C<USAGE> routine, a default message is printed to standard -output. This -usage message is automatically generated from the signature (or +error. If the C<MAIN> routine does not declare a named parameter C<:$help>, +and C<--help> is passed as a command line argument to the program, the usage +message is printed to standard output instead. + +This usage message is automatically generated from the signature (or signatures) of C<MAIN>. This message is generated at compile time, and hence is available at any later time as C<$?USAGE>.
