Author: particle
Date: 2009-02-05 03:14:01 +0100 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 25200
Added:
t/spec/S19-command-line/
t/spec/S19-invalid/
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod
Log:
[S19] --autoloop-split, -a: assigns result to @_; signature and option name
fixups
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-02-05 01:59:03 UTC (rev 25199)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod 2009-02-05 02:14:01 UTC (rev 25200)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
Maintainer: Jerry Gay <jerry....@rakudoconsulting.com>
Date: 12 Dec 2008
Last Modified: 4 Feb 2009
- Version: 17
+ Version: 18
This is a draft document. This document describes the command line interface.
It has changed extensively from previous versions of Perl in order to increase
@@ -369,20 +369,21 @@
=head2 Synopsis
multi sub perl6(
- Bool :a($autosplit),
+ Bool :a($autoloop-split),
Bool :c($check-syntax),
Bool :$doc,
:e($execute),
- :F($autoloop-split),
+ :F($autoloop-delim),
Bool :h($help),
:I(@include),
- :u($use),
+ :L($language),
Bool :n($autoloop-no-print),
:O($output-format) = 'exe',
:o($output-file) = $*OUT,
Bool :p($autoloop-print),
Bool :S($search-path),
Bool :T($taint),
+ :u($use),
Bool :v($version),
Bool :V($verbose-config),
);
@@ -391,12 +392,13 @@
=over 4
-=item --autosplit, -a
+=item --autoloop-split, -a
-Turns on autosplit mode.
+When used with C<-n> or C<-p>, implicitly splits input on whitespace
+(by default) and assigns the result to C<@_> within the loop produced
+by the C<-n> or C<-p>.
-=for consideration
-[what does it split to? @F like P5? Or should we switch to @_? --law]
+An alternate delimiter may be specified with C<--autoloop-delim>, a.k.a. C<-F>.
=item ++CMD --command-line-parser *parser* ++/CMD
@@ -440,7 +442,7 @@
=for consideration
[doesn't work without a semicolon! (unless we special case it) --law]
-=item --autoloop-split, -F *expression*
+=item --autoloop-delim, -F *expression*
Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default
split function, which is C<{split ' '}>. Accepts unicode strings (as long as
