Re^4: Does Perl 5 (or 6?) need another built-in variable for the -F switch?

Well, at least perl should know which command line parameters where used when it was invoked :) and as the proposed hash %^C was supposed to be populated by perl itself, this should work out fine. This hash should then, IMO, include the command line parameters set via PERL5OPT.

Mind you, I have no idea how difficult it would be to patch that into perl, I just said I liked the idea.

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Re^5: Does Perl 5 (or 6?) need another built-in variable for the -F switch? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 03, 2006 at 11:53 UTC
In that case, you rather want an array of pairs instead of a hash. There are switches that can be used multiple times (-M, among others), and some switches interact and their order is relevant (-l and -0 for instance).	[reply]
Re^6: Does Perl 5 (or 6?) need another built-in variable for the -F switch? by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 03, 2006 at 16:28 UTC
If -M (for example) were used multiple times, the %^C hash would look like this: `%^C = ( M => [ 'strict', 'Data::Dumper', 'Getopt::Long' ], # ..... );` [download] Dave	[reply] [d/l]