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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2007-01-08 14:28:17 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2007-01-08 14:28:17 +0000
commit3236f110cb098d9081961e6c9f4585ecaf729cc5 (patch)
treeb43b43e83918ae06b9bad998859de68363d0a772
parentfbf9f98379663b1157bb1fda639aa04bc8781c89 (diff)
downloadperl-3236f110cb098d9081961e6c9f4585ecaf729cc5.tar.gz
Mention -C on #! line in perltodo. Remove some trailing whitespace that
podchecker warned over. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29719
-rw-r--r--pod/perltodo.pod11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index f7782c7e05..74e5a86629 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -529,6 +529,15 @@ PerlIO doesn't do directories or symlinks, either: mkdir(), rmdir(),
opendir(), closedir(), seekdir(), rewinddir(), glob(); symlink(),
readlink().
+=head2 -C on the #! line
+
+It should be possible to make -C work correctly if found on the #! line,
+given that all perl command line options are strict ASCII, and -C changes
+only the interpretation of non-ASCII characters, and not for the script file
+handle. To make it work needs some investigation of the ordering of function
+calls during startup, and (by implication) a bit of tweaking of that order.
+
+
=head1 Tasks that need a knowledge of the interpreter
These tasks would need C knowledge, and knowledge of how the interpreter works,
@@ -655,5 +664,3 @@ This will allow the use of a regex from inside (?{ }), (??{ }) and
Apparently these are quite useful. Anyway, Jeffery Friedl wants them.
demerphq has this on his todo list, but right at the bottom.
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