Re: RFC 290 (v1) Remove -X

[Clayton Scott]

"John L. Allen" wrote:
> The use of a caret was to prevent decimation of the user's namespace,
>
>         perl -e 'print -^rwx $_'
>         syntax error at -e line 1, near "-^"
>         Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

    The only problem I have with a caret is that to me the proposal 
 doesn't "jibe" with it's current use of negating a character class in
 a regexp and it's proposed use for currying.

Clayton