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?
*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*
| Tim Maher, PhD (206) 781-UNIX (866) DOC-PERL (866) DOC-UNIX |
| tim(AT)Consultix-Inc.Com http://TeachMePerl.Com http://TeachMeUnix.Com |
*+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-*
| Watch for my upcoming book: "Minimal Perl for UNIX/Linux People" |
| 2/14: Minimal Perl 2/15: Hashes & Arrays 2/16-18: Intermediate Perl |
*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*
More information about the spug-list
mailing list