[perl #134298] "say" docs misleading

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Hi,

perlfunc says "`say LIST` is simply an abbreviation for `{ local $\ = 
"\n"; print LIST }`". If that were true, the output of the following two 
would be the same:

$ perl -MData::Dumper -E 'sub x{Dumper($\)}{local$\="\n";print(x())}'
$VAR1 = '
';

$ perl -MData::Dumper -E 'sub x{Dumper($\)}say(x())'
$VAR1 = undef;

So I think the documentation is incorrect. I always thought `say LIST` was 
simply an abbreviation for `print(LIST,"\n")` - at least that's how it 
behaves (it's not `print LIST, $\`, as a simple test shows).

$ perl -E '$\="y"; print "x"; say "z"'
xyz

Thanks, Regards,
-- Hauke D

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