The poll can't have been exhaustive.
I like these magic variables that depend on currently selected
fie handles, they remind me of Pascal's C<with> construction
for entering the name space of a record structure.
Anyone for generalizing "select" to a more general "with" keyword
which would operate on a limited hash and be syntactic sugar for
replacing all appearances of unqualified variables that match
the hash's keys with references into it?
%record = loadrecord($studentID);
with %record {
print <<SPAM;
Dear $Name:
Your tuition is now due. Please send in a payment
of at least $Minumum.
SPAM
# anyone for having a python-like floating left edge for
# retaining indentation of hereis strings?
};
Nathan Wiger wrote:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-io@perl.org/msg00094.html
>
> This is a succinct summary of the basic conclusions thus far:
>
> 1. a default filehandle IS needed sometimes, but only
> for stuff like print
>
> 2. $|, $\, $/, etc will probably go away entirely in
> favor of object methods such as $handle->autoflush
>
> That's the current thinking. As always, this is subject to change.
> However, most everyone seems to agree that "having global $| vars that
> aren't really global but actually depend on what the currently selected
> filehandle is which depends on what select() was called on" is bad. So,
> setting stuff like autoflush will probably be object methods only.
> Setting stuff like the default for print will probably still be via the
> default filehandle.
>
> -Nate
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Useless use of a void in constant context
