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in reply to Modules as executable scripts?

So no way to change to the "pm" extension so that the script could be named either with ".pl" or without any extension?

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Re^2: Modules as executable scripts?
by RonW (Parson) on Mar 16, 2017 at 21:16 UTC

    use requires that the module's files have a ".pm" extension.

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      It's true about "use", but "require" doesn't. And that could be the ticket for making modulinos less weird on the command line.
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        True, but then it's "weird" to use from a program or other module:

        BEGIN {
    require "Modulino.pl";
    Modulino::import;
}

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        instead of the usual:

        use Modulino;

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        I think it's better to put up with the weirdness in the modulino than forcing weirdness into programs and other modules that try to use the modulino.

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        It's true about "use", but "require" doesn't. And that could be the ticket for making modulinos less weird on the command line

        Hi

        modulinos are golf, which is a game, a gimmick, and not a feature to be used for work,

        so say no modulinos , an evil gimmick )

        If a user can be bothered to create a  symlink. I.e., /bin/something -> path_to_pm

        Then the user can be bothered to create 

        cat>/bin/something
use TheModule;
TheModule::BinSomething( @ARGV );

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        Its literally no effort at all to accomplish, esp if bin/something is created by the module installation software

        The only thing modulinos can accomplish is to substitute 1 symlink for 1 regular file -- what a ridiculous goal to write extra code for

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Re^2: Modules as executable scripts?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2017 at 17:18 UTC
    "This flexibility is a common feature in Python ..."

    And who needs it? Here's what you cannot do in Python that you can in Perl and Ruby: run Python as an ad hoc filter. So there is that. If you are trying to say Python is better than Perl then you just failed. 

    perl -pi.bak -e's/foo/bar/g' python.txt

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    You can't do that in Python! But you can run a .pm file as a script if you are dumb enough to think that's a good thing.
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      I think it will work through a symlink. I.e., /bin/something -> path_to_pm
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