On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Scott wrote: > At 09:36 AM 4/9/01 +0200, Ariel Scolnicov 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. We could then just add a -7 flag. That's not necessarily bad; Perl 7 will probably face the same issue...it needs to be able to eat Perl [567] code without barfing, but it needs to know what it's getting. Also, the flag would be a good choice in that it's very human-readable. Dave
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