Perl6 Rfc Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>In addition, this RFC recommends deprecating select(), since it is no
>longer needed with the new fileobject approach described in RFC 14.
>
>
> $oldoutput = select($newoutput);
>
>Can now be written simply as reassignments:
>
> $oldoutput = $STDOUT;
> $STDOUT = $filehandle;
But that is _NOT_ what select() does:
$olddef = select($newdef);
print $STDOUT "Still goes to $STDOUT";
print "This goes to $newdef";
select sets the default for a print with no handle specified it does NOT
change STDOUT.
It will be impossible to translate many perl5 programs to perl6 if
that difference is not retained somehow.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
