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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
October 5, 2013 20:57
Subject:
Re: deprecate say!
Message ID:
CALJW-qFe9+ZDmrG+9CoeQt3nLPT52SMd+vgNWN3CP8ai-f7vPA@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>wrote:

> On 5 October 2013 22:03, Brad Gilbert <b2gills@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why isn't `say FILEHANDLE LIST` the same as
> > `print FILEHANDLE LIST, "\n"` ?
>
> You mean
> { local $\; print FILEHANDLE LIST, "\n" }
> and we're back to the initial problem.
>

Well, it's a lesser form of the initial problem, as in it's not likely to
ever be an actual problem.

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