Re^3: Why doesn't Perl warn me about this bareword? (IO::Prompt prompt -line)

Well, the string returned by -word does include the -, so it's an easy mistake to make.

>perl -e "print -word
-word
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Aside, I prefer
prompt -line => "Eh?: ";
over
prompt -line, "Eh?: ";
since the two form a name-value relation.

Update: Oops, I thought -line and "Eh?: " were related.

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Re^4: Why doesn't Perl warn me about this bareword? (IO::Prompt prompt -line) by j3 (Friar) on Nov 15, 2006 at 20:49 UTC
Aside, I prefer `prompt -line => "Eh?: ";` over `prompt -line, "Eh?: ";` since the two form a name-value relation. Actually, according to the IO::Prompt docs (the ascii-table in the INTERFACE section), `-line` doesn't actually take an argument, and so looks to me like it doesn't actually have a name-value relationship with the prompt string.	[reply]