Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Peter Scott]

At 12:38 PM 4/9/01 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>>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!
>>
>>But by the time people learned to use '-6' we'd have Perl 7 out.
>
>I'm still trying to figure out why the flag needs to change. What's wrong 
>with -e? It seems perfectly serviceable.

Because Larry said that by default Perl 6 would assume that its input was 
in Perl 5...?  So we need a way to tell it that it isn't.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies