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On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 04:19:29PM +0100, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 23:11:38 +0800
> Tom Molesworth via perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
> > Wouldn't the existing STDOUT local() support be more clear for this
> > case? It also has the advantage of working equivalently for
> > STDERR/warn:
> >
> > {
> > local *STDOUT = $newh;
> > print "Redirected";
> > }
> > {
> > local *STDERR = $newh;
> > warn "Also redirected";
> > }
> >
> > Or is this aimed more at format-related functionality?
>
> Wow. I had actually forgotten you can do that.
"Me too".
(Actually, for me, it's more "I hadn't realised that this would work")
> Turns out that's perfectly fine for my use-case, which was a small
> unit-test around a print'ing method. I shall do that instead.
I wondered - as it doesn't seem to be "obvious", should we document this?
I'm proposing https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19225
(and now we see whether the cygwin CI test fails on a docpatch)
Nicholas Clark
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