in reply to Re^5: Averages in bowling
in thread Averages in bowling

Are you sure that the missing close quote is not an error? I don't have Windows to test on, but Linux, missing either a closing ' or " causes the command line to spill onto the next line, which means that you type in your command and nothing happens.

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Re^7: Averages in bowling
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 21, 2006 at 23:29 UTC
    Yes, it's optional in Windows. I never close my quotes when using perl -e in Windows. 
    >perl -e "print 'foo'
foo
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      Neat trick, but, mmmm. . . why not? Just to avoid typing the closing quote?
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