> If the new, spiffy features of Perl6 are out of my reach that 60-80% of > the time, and I have to use "perl5compat -nle ...", then the usefulness > of this new language will be largely lost on me.
I'm not sure I follow. What hypothetical features are you talking about here? From what I've seen, Perl 6 is going to be as much of a one-line scripting language as Perl 5, if not more, but also a much better structured language. I mean, look at hyper-operators. If those aren't a one-liner thing I don't know what is. That's also why I was asking for chaining statement modifiers. I don't want to have to put curlies in my one-liner just because it has an if _and_ a while. I mean, if if is just a backwards and, and you can chain ands, why can't you chain ifs? Oh, sorry for the rant. One thing I'd like to see is the argument lost on the -i argument, so I can do search and replaces on files with: perl -pie 's/apple/blueberry/g' :) Luke