Re: [PLUG] Re: Perl interpreter hangs

[ed nestor <ejn88@voicenet.com>]

Kevin Falcone wrote:

> >>>>> "en" == ed nestor <ejn88@voicenet.com> writes:
>
>   en> I do not get the perl prompt.  The cursor just moves to next
>   en> line and hangs there.
>
> That is what is supposed to happen
>
> [kevin@bowline ~]$ perl
> print "Hello World\n";
> ^D
> Hello World
>
> It sits there waiting for you to type in a program and then press
> Control-D to tell it to execute the code you typed in.
>
>   en> perl -v ,works, but nothing else.
>
> It might help to provide the output of perl -v so we have some idea
> what version of perl you are using.
>
> What are you trying to do with perl that this is causing you such confusion?
>
> -kevin
>
> --
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>                --Tom Christiansen in comp.lang.perl.misc
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Python has a prompt, Scheme has a prompt, I assumed Perl had a prompt. Thank
you for being persistent with me.  I understand now.

Thanks again,     -- Ed



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