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Re: perlrun.pod lies :)

From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
To: japhy@pobox.com
cc: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>, Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>, perl5-porters@perl.org
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:08:23 -0800
Message-Id: <200001102108.NAA29579@activestate.com>

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:52:22 EST, Jeff Pinyan wrote:
>>     % ./stestnew --foo=bar
>>     bar
>
>Whoa!  Where is THAT documented?

You get that after applying the patch I sent.

>                                 I didn't know command-line switches
>could do that!

They couldn't because the leading '--' in '--foo=bar' used to terminate
switch processing (as you reported).

>                I'm referring to -opt=val.  I didn't see that in perlrun.

--foo=bar is only a special case of -opt=val (i.e. "opt" eq "-foo").


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

Follow-Ups from:: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>

References to:: Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>

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