Author: particle Date: 2009-01-07 20:53:32 +0100 (Wed, 07 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24799
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] describe unchanged syntax Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-01-07 19:42:33 UTC (rev 24798) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-01-07 19:53:32 UTC (rev 24799) @@ -85,8 +85,36 @@ =head2 Unchanged Syntactic Features -{{TODO short names, clustering, etc}} +Several features have not changed from Perl 5, including: +=over 4 + +=item * + +The most common options have a single-letter short name + +=item * + +Single-letter options may be clustered with the same syntax and semantics + +=item * + +Many command-line options behave similarly, such as + -a # autosplit + -c # check syntax + -e *line* # execute + -F *expression* # specify autosplit value + -h # display help + -I *directory*[,*directory*[,...]] # add include paths + -n # act like awk + -p # act like sed + -S # search PATH for script + -T # Taint mode + -v # display version info + -V # display verbose config info + +=back + =head2 Removed Syntactic Features {{ -jg