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Re: [MacPerl] open() misfeature?

At 13:34 -0500 2/21/97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>BTW, Perl scripts should not have a .pl suffix. Only perl4 library files
>>should
>>be written with a .pl suffix.
>
>Then how would BBEdit know how to color the text?  :-)

Well, Emacs elects to figure it out based on the !# line.  (And it's
particular...when we were running both 4 and an early unhappy 5, !# lines
which pointed to !#.../perl5 caused Emacs to use Fundamental, not Perl
mode.)

   --John