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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
October 6, 2013 00:28
Subject:
Re: deprecate say!
Message ID:
27983.1381019301@chthon
Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> wrote
on Sat, 05 Oct 2013 22:12:36 +0200:
>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 $\; print FILEHANDLE LIST, "\n" }
>and we're back to the initial problem.
>> or
>>
>> `print FILEHANDLE LIST, ($\ // "\n")`
>That would be an incompatible change (and a confusing semantic).
Perhaps, but it’s certainly what I always expected it to do.
I believe in perl6, it may actually do that, or its moral equivalent.
The hardcoded \n instead of $\ has always seemed like a bug to me,
a design bug or a concept bug or something like that.
--tom
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