[Israel.pm] losing my sanity?

[sawyer x]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:

> order of switches?


> try
>
> perl -MCwd -e "print Cwd::getcwd();"
>

Indeed that is the problem.

-e expects the next string to be something to run. When you write "-e
-MCwd", you're actually asking the perl interpreter to run the Perl code
"-MCwd", which results in.. nothing. "-" is used for negation, and that line
of "code" is basically negating "MCwd".

If you were to add strictures, you would get a warning.

$ perl -Mstrict -W -e -MCwd
Useless use of negation (-) in void context at -e line 1.

The reason this gets you a warning is because you're not doing anything with
the value you got from the operation. If you were to use it, the warning
would cease.

$ perl -Mstrict -W -e "print -MCwd"
-MCwd

The value of negating MCwd is .. -MCwd. :)
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