Re^2: What's your programming style?

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Re^3: What's your programming style? by kcott (Archbishop) on Dec 09, 2018 at 02:36 UTC
The naming conventions are, at least in my opinion, easily confused. The use of spaces and capitalisation can make a lot of difference. For versions where `$^O` returns `MacOS`, see perlmacos (that's the most recent online perldoc [for `5.26.1`]). Note the versions of Perl where support was dropped and then removed. See perlport (5.8.9) > PLATFORMS > Mac OS for historical information (including use of the ":" separator). Mac versions `10.x` started roughly 20 years ago. They were originally called "Mac OS X". Around version `10.10` — I don't have exact information to hand — that became "macOS". (I don't know why.) They all use the "/" separator (same as any UNIX-like system). I have personal knowledge of versions from `10.7` "Mac OS X" to `10.12` "macOS" (I've used most but not all). To the best of my knowledge, for all of these versions, `$^O` has always returned `darwin`. `$ perl -le 'print $^O' darwin` [download] Unless support for very old hardware is intended, coding for `$^O` returning `MacOS` is probably unnecessary (except, perhaps, for a warning about an unsupported operating system). — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: What's your programming style? by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 09, 2018 at 10:29 UTC
Thank you, Ken, for the clarification. The documents on which I relied were from the year 2000 or so, that's why I prudently concluded my comment with the sentence "or, at least, it used to be so".	[reply]
Re^3: What's your programming style? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 09, 2018 at 04:53 UTC
Like others have said. It’s been 18 years since Mac started the move from 9 to X (a play on 10, uniX, and neXtstep). 17 years ago X was on all boxes with some dual/system boot options and a couple years after, 9 was gone. I was a dyed in wool Mac fan from the 80s (when all the good typesetting and music software was there) but by 1999 I was within a year of giving up on Mac for some kind of *nix when they made the leap, put out the beta, and I was allowed to remain in their camp.	[reply]
Re^3: What's your programming style? by 1nickt (Canon) on Dec 09, 2018 at 01:51 UTC
Salut, Laurent. Not for a long time has it been like that in my experience. I am on MacOS Sierra, but it's been darwin for as long as I can remember. `$ perl -E 'say $^O' darwin $ perl -v This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for darwin-2l +evel $ uname -a Darwin MYHOSTNAME 16.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jun 21 20:0 +7:39 PDT 2018; root:xnu-3789.73.14~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64` [download] See Re: Get macOS Version for recent discussion. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: What's your programming style? by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Dec 09, 2018 at 02:41 UTC
Does this mean for modern Macs (MacOS) you can simply write Unix-like Perl, including Unix-like path names?	[reply]
Re^5: What's your programming style? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 09, 2018 at 04:37 UTC
Yes, because it's a BSD-derived system.	[reply]
Re^4: What's your programming style? by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 09, 2018 at 10:20 UTC
Thank you, 1nickt, for the clarification.	[reply]