Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Ariel Scolnicov]

"David Whipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > One-liners run on a Perl 6 binary should just be Perl 6 code.  Do we
> > really have to worry about backwards compatibility with one liners?
> >
> > Hmm... programs that have perl one-liners inside them might be
> > troublesome.
> 
> 
> Why not:
> 
> perl -e 'perl 5 one-liner'
> 
> perl --cmd 'perl 6 one-liner'
> 
> i.e. maintain the "-e" switch as a backward compatibility flag, with a new
> cmd line flag for perl 6.

One liners are supposed to be SHORT.  `--cmd' is LONG.  If we MUST go
the multiflagged way, why not reflect `-e' to get the `-6' flag?  At
the very least, I want a short flag!

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Ariel Scolnicov