RE: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[David Whipp]

> 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.


Why not:

perl -e 'perl 5 one-liner'

perl --cmd 'perl 6 one-liner'

i.e. maintain the "-e" switch as a backward compatibility flag, with a new
cmd line flag for perl 6.


Dave.
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