I know that it is probably (a few years) too late for a proposal like
this, that is highly "invasive" wrt Perl's semantic, but here it is
anyway...
Cmd line switches are so useful and effective to quickly change the
behaviour of programs: IIRC tcl's syntax was inspired by them. But OTOH it
is to
Michele Dondi skribis 2004-06-22 18:24 (+0200):
> rename -v => 1, $orig, $new;
Any specific reason for the minus there? Perl's not a shell (yet).
> rename.SWITCHES{-v} = sub {
> my ($o, $n) = @_;
> print "renaming `$o' to `$n'\n";
> }
I think just using named arguments would be
Michele Dondi wrote:
Specifically I'd like to have the possibility of doing something like
this:
rename -v => 1, $orig, $new;
It's already being done:
rename $orig, $new :verbose;
sub rename($orig, $new, +$verbose) {
say "Renaming `$orig' to `$new'" if $verbose;
...
Juerd writes:
> Michele Dondi skribis 2004-06-22 18:24 (+0200):
> > rename -v => 1, $orig, $new;
>
> Any specific reason for the minus there? Perl's not a shell (yet).
>
> > rename.SWITCHES{-v} = sub {
> > my ($o, $n) = @_;
> > print "renaming `$o' to `$n'\n";
> > }
>
> I think
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Juerd wrote:
> Michele Dondi skribis 2004-06-22 18:24 (+0200):
> > rename -v => 1, $orig, $new;
>
> Any specific reason for the minus there? Perl's not a shell (yet).
Because one may want to restrict the number of pairs to be interpreted as
"cmd line" switches, I'm not ev
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
> > rename -v => 1, $orig, $new;
>
> It's already being done:
>
> rename $orig, $new :verbose;
>
> sub rename($orig, $new, +$verbose) {
> say "Renaming `$orig' to `$new'" if $verbose;
> ...
> }
I'm not sure
Michele Dondi writes:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
>
> > > rename -v => 1, $orig, $new;
> >
> > It's already being done:
> >
> > rename $orig, $new :verbose;
> >
> > sub rename($orig, $new, +$verbose) {
> > say "Renaming `$orig' to `$new'" if $verb
