[FWP] Re: Golf Shell

[sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)]

In article <20000509175106.A356@netvision.net.il>,
Gaal Yahas <gaal@forum2.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 08:01:13AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > > for what it is worth, I give you "Golf Shell":
> > > 
> > > perl -ne '$\="\n";eval $_;undef$\;print "gosh> "'

??? What is this trying to accomplish?  A golf shot isn't necessarily
expecting or wanting $\="\n".  (And a BEGIN{print"gosh> "} would be
nice.)

> > 
> > $_ is the default argument to eval, so you can save three characters there.
> 
> I kinda like
> 
>      perl -nle eval

For interactive perl I usually use:

perl -Wlne "eval;print$@if$@"

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