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| author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2009-07-26 10:27:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2009-07-26 10:27:42 +0100 |
| commit | 4ba71d51f72efb2af8dc9748dd62219261f2e1fd (patch) | |
| tree | db33beb1f04b46d1f8f8202b570e72464a23aacd /pod | |
| parent | f0c5aa00eeb992584d6996af147c4c51fe7a6540 (diff) | |
| download | perl-4ba71d51f72efb2af8dc9748dd62219261f2e1fd.tar.gz | |
Allow -C on the #! line when it is identical to -C on the command line.
Change from dieing whenever -C is seen on the #! line, to dieing only when it
differs from that on the command line, or was not specified on the command line.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 6 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 1775163cf7..2623010499 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -4196,8 +4196,15 @@ system call to call, silly dilly. =item Too late for "-%s" option (X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the -B<-M>, B<-m> or B<-C> option. This is an error because those options -are not intended for use inside scripts. Use the C<use> pragma instead. +B<-M>, B<-m> or B<-C> option. + +In the case of B<-M> and B<-m>, this is an error because those options are +not intended for use inside scripts. Use the C<use> pragma instead. + +The B<-C> option only works if it is specified on the command line as well +(with the same sequence of letters or numbers following). Either specify +this option on the command line, or, if your system supports it, make your +script executable and run it directly instead of passing it to perl. =item Too late to run %s block diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index c3b30c8ad7..994aecb847 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -342,10 +342,10 @@ that enabled the use of Unicode-aware "wide system call" Win32 APIs. This feature was practically unused, however, and the command line switch was therefore "recycled".) -B<Note:> Since perl 5.10.0, the -C option can no longer be used -on the #! line. It wasn't working there anyway, since the standard streams +B<Note:> Since perl 5.10.1, if the -C option is used on the #! line, it +must be specified on the command line as well, since the standard streams are already set up at this point in the execution of the perl interpreter. -You can use binmode() instead to get the desired behaviour. +You can also use binmode() to set the encoding of an I/O stream. =item B<-c> X<-c> |