In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Moritz Lenz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> brian d foy wrote:
> > Under the section "The for Statement" in S04, it says that the diamond
> > operator
> >
> > while( <> ) { ... }
> >
> > becomes in Perl 6
> >
> > for =$*ARGS { ... }
>
> Some time ago I read that too, and wondered why that's not [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> That
> seems more reasonable, because the command line arguments are stored in
> @*ARGS.
well, $*ARGS is a magical filehandle, not a list of files. If you could
use an array there, I think you'd have to allow any array, and that
would be weird.
