Author: particle Date: 2009-01-09 22:17:42 +0100 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24848
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] a note on assumptions Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-01-09 21:13:19 UTC (rev 24847) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-01-09 21:17:42 UTC (rev 24848) @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Maintainer: Jerry Gay <jerry....@rakudoconsulting.com> Date: 12 Dec 2008 Last Modified: 9 Jan 2009 - Version: 14 + Version: 15 This is a draft document. This document describes the command line interface. It has changed extensively from previous versions of Perl in order to increase @@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ This interface to Perl 6 is special in that it occurs at the intersection of the program and the operating system's command line shell, and thus is not -accessed via a consistent syntax everywhere. Perl is born of Unix, and as such -the syntax presented in this document is expected to work in a Unix-style -shell. To explore the particularities of other operating systems, see -L<Synopsis 25|S25-portability> (TBD). +accessed via a consistent syntax everywhere. A few assumptions are made here, +which will hopefully stand the test of time: All command-line arguments are +assumed to be in Unicode unless proven otherwise; and Perl is born of Unix, +and as such the syntax presented in this document is expected to work in a +Unix-style shell. To explore the particularities of other operating systems, +see L<Synopsis 25|S25-portability> (TBD). -[my notes/conjectures below are all in square brackets --TimToady] - =head1 Command Line Elements The command line is broken down into two basic elements: a I<program>, and @@ -574,15 +574,6 @@ This should try to use whatever option does the same thing to a new filehandle when S16 is further developed. -Do I need to address any unicode concerns? - -[You can try "all command line arguments are assumed to be in unicode -unless proven otherwise" and see how well it flies. :) but this starts -to get into filenames-are-blobs kind of issues...maybe we need a way -of marking arguments as needing to be encoded into a Buf. but for sanity -we must try to settle on unicode as the default expectation. I hope POSIX -dies before Perl 6 does...] - Sandboxing? maybe-r Env var? maybe -E.
