Re: RFC 39 (v3) Perl should have a print operator

[Tom Christiansen]

>I think that's the idea... and print may return undef if it fails to
>print, and the printed string otherwise (always defined, even if it's an
>emtpy string).

Those are not the semantics of print.   It returns true (1) if successful, and
false (undef) otherwise.  You cannot change that.  If I write print "0", it
bloody well shan't be returning false.

And what are you going to do about buffering?

What do you *REALLY* want to do???

--tom