Sounds like a good idea. I propose a commandline arg that gives info about
modules in @INC also. I emailed this to the list earlier but it never seemed
to make it.
Something like
perl -M 'Digest'
might return:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/:
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 4733 Aug 5 1999 Digest.pm
>From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: command line option: $|++
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:08:24 -0400
>
>i just found an interseting little oddity i want fixed. i (like many of
>you) run one liners for testing snippets of code. i typically use a -p
>or -n loop and type in test data. i get tired of retyping in all the
>data each time when i want to edit the previous line only a little
>bit. i tried using ssfe (split screen front end, comes with sirc char
>client) and i saw no output due to pipe buffering. so i had to put a
>$|++ in the one liner to make it work. perl6 should have a command line
>option to enable $| for STDOUT.
>
>i haven't see any threads about perl's command line options. like the
>special variables, i think it could use a good editing and overhaul.
>
>uri
>
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