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Name

perl6 - Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler

Synopsis

perl6 [switches] [--] [programfile] [arguments]

Description

With no arguments, enters a REPL . With a "[programfile]" or the "-e" option, compiles the given program and by default also executes the compiled code.

-c                   check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks)
-e program           one line of program
-h, --help           display this help text
-n                   run program once for each line of input
-p                   same as -n, but also print $_ at the end of lines
--target=[stage]     specify compilation stage to emit
-t, --trace=[flags]  enable trace flags, see 'parrot --help-debug'
--encoding=[mode]    specify string encoding mode
-o, --output=[name]  specify name of output file
-v, --version        display version information
--stagestats         display time spent in the compilation stages
--ll-backtrace       display a low level backtrace on errors

Supported stages for --target are:

parse past post pir evalpmc

parse = a representation of the parse tree
past  = an intermediate format representing the parrot abstract syntax tree
post  = an intermediate format representing the parrot opcode syntax tree
pir   = the parrot intermediate representation

Parrot Options

To specify options to the underlying parrot VM , you must explicitly run parrot; you cannot specify these options by using the "perl6" executable.

parrot [parrot switches] perl6.pbc [switches] [--] [programfile] [arguments]

Authors

Written by the Rakudo contributors, see the CREDITS file.

This manual page was written by Reini Urban, Moritz Lenz and the Rakudo contributors.