Perl 6 Deep Dive

The -c command

The -c command-line checks the syntax of the program and exits. It also runs the BEGIN and CHECK blocks in the program, which are discussed in the section Phasers of Chapter 2, Writing Code later in this book. This command-line option is useful if you only want to check that there are no syntax errors in the code and don't want to execute it, with the exception being the code in the BEGIN and CHECK code blocks.

In the case of correct programming, it prints the following output:

Syntax OK

If there were compile-time errors, the compilation will stop at the first error and will display it on the console, mentioning the line number where it found an error.

The error message contains the description of the error and indicates the ...