Re: [MacPerl] BBEdit 5.1.1tests

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

Larry Moore <ljmoore@freespace.net> wrote:

>I haven't read whether -e will be added to MacPerl 5.6

-e 'commandline'

If given, Perl will not look for a script filename in the argument list, 
but instead evaluates the following argument as if it WERE the command 
line.

On the Mac, no command line.  Since the #! is emulated, and doesn't 
actually behave like the REAL Unix #! (indicates the line is to be 
treated as if it WERE the command line), you can't have -e in the MacPerl 
app.  MPW perl is different.  Essentially MPW **is** a command-line 
shell, so -e is enabled there.

If MacPerl 5.6 is still MacPerl, and MacOS 9 and earlier are still the 
MacOS (without a command line).  What exactly are you hoping WHO will 
change so that -e will work?

I can't speak for Matthias, however, who may be more brilliant than that. 
 Emulated -e may in fact arrive with MacPerl 5.6, but I've heard no 
mention of such.  Other things seems to be of prime importance.



Brian McNett, Webmaster, Mycoinfo
*************************************************************
http://www.mycoinfo.com/  The world's first mycology e-journal.
Another happy user of Macs and MacPerl (http://www.macperl.com)
*************************************************************


# ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
# ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org