Please call for the documentation to change, not the implementation. It's a few little details like this that make perl usable on windows.

Whatever we think of it, we're stuck with it because of backwards compatibility reasons. Note that

system { $cmd[0] } @cmd;
[download]

appears to work as documented, except for the error code.

Hm. I'd never seen that syntax. I know exec doesn't make sense on my OS, so I've never looked at that part of the docs. There's always something new to learn, even if it is non-useful :)

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