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Re^4: Supressing warnings

by morgon (Priest)
on Jul 22, 2010 at 23:27 UTC ( [id://850939]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Supressing warnings
in thread Supressing warnings

Yeah, ok there may be some uses like yours (which I would consider a hack), but in general (at least that would be the behaviour of least surprise) you (ok: I) would expect that when you run a script as "a.pl" you get your command-line flags from the shebang-line and when you run it as "perl <whatever flags> a.pl" your get it from - well - the command line.

With this behaviour I cannot run a script with different flags without having to modify it if it contains a shebang lines with flags.

Do Python and Ruby do this as well?

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Re^5: Supressing warnings
by almut (Canon) on Jul 23, 2010 at 00:14 UTC
    With this behaviour I cannot run a script with different flags without having to modify it if it contains a shebang lines with flags.

    You could also argue the other way round, i.e. it provides for consistency independently of how exactly the interpreter is being invoked — in particular as there are some operating system that don't handle shebangs (one rather commonly used one is among them...).

    And some options might be an integral part of a script, or at least important to its proper functioning — like -n, -p, -l, -C (which didn't work on the shebang line until recently, btw), etc. — so I would rather want them to remain in effect when I call the script as perl myscript.pl .

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