SPUG: RE - using ActivePerl coming from UNIX land

Tim Maher tim at consultix-inc.com
Wed Dec 22 21:40:39 CST 2004


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:31:13PM -0800, David Innes (CSG) wrote:
> Hi Brian,  
> 
> As Dave Coleman says, ActivePerl is plain old Perl compiled for the Windows
> platform.  There are some differences but they're very slight.
> 
> 1) As Dave mentions the underlying systems are different.  ActivePerl does a
> pretty good job masking those differences (e.g. you can still use forward
> slashes to denote folders in paths even though the Windows system uses
> backslashes.)  

Is the abilitye to use the "wrong slash-angle" an ActivePerl enhancement
or a standard Perl feature?

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