This is not by accident, it's documented in perlembed: ... I'll presume this usage is official because it document in perldoc.

ExtUtils::Embed has nothing to suggest this usage is supported. perlembed documents a particular ordering that happens to work without semicolons due to the way those two functions happen to process arguments (which is only obvious upon review of the module code). Do you really think this was the intention of the developers or documentation team?

I think perl5 porter should make this clearer.

I agree, the perlembed docs invite trouble. Why don't you open a perlbug?

I.E: use perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e'ldopts;' -e'ccopts;' instead.

Or perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e 'ldopts; ccopts' (I'd suggest -eldopts,ccopts, but while the comma works here, it doesn't everywhere.)

In reply to Re^3: ExtUtils::Embed function sequence affect output? by rjt
in thread ExtUtils::Embed function sequence affect output? by xiaoyafeng

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