Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> many systems allow for a global/local startup file for various
> >> reasons. i see a potential use of this in perl but i don't see the
> >> specific use yet. build it they will use it.
>
> TC> But Perl is not an interactive shell! Can you imagine if a C
> TC> compiler allowed arbitrary amounts of text to be pre-included
>
> and what about the proposals for an interactive perl? maybe they should
> support this.
An interactive Perl can certainly read some options, just like a
debugger. This is not specific to Perl, of course; GDB, for one
example, also reads configuration files when loading. But that
doesn't mean GCC reads a configuration file to tell it what type of C
code the system administrator has decided to mandate!
Configuration files for C<perl -d>, an interactive Perl, C<perldl>,
and any other application written in Perl are a nice idea (one that
TomC seems to support). This has nothing to do with wanting to
configure the language itself.
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