On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:15:56PM -0400, Ted Ashton wrote:
> 2) If the executable called ends in 6.
ETOOMAGICAL. Shades of zip/unzip here. On some systems zip and unzip
are just hard links to the same binary. It figures out what it
supposed to do by what name is called. Very magical. Very bad.
> That way, "the #! thing" would suffice for normal code and one could just
>
> perl6 -e 'whatever;'
>
> for one-liners.
One-liners run on a Perl 6 binary should just be Perl 6 code. Do we
really have to worry about backwards compatibility with one liners?
Hmm... programs that have perl one-liners inside them might be
troublesome.
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