> I loathe the indirect object syntax.
Well that makes one of us! ;-)
> Easy. Put them in a subroutine:
>
> sub format1 { format $template1, @data };
> sub format2 { print STDERR format $template1, @data };
> # etc.
Gag! Cough! Ack! :-}
Not trying to be mean, but this doesn't make things easy. As I mentioned
in my previous email, being able to say:
write STDOUT;
is a *benefit*. It seems your proposal is 90% of the way there if it
just followed suit with the other commonly-used printing functions:
print $STDERR @stuff;
printf $STDERR $fmt, @stuff;
format $STDERR $fmt, @stuff;
Looks pretty consistent to me, and makes things easy too.
Either that, or drop the printing in a void context altogether, and just
tell people they have to say
print format $fmt, @stuff;
Which I'm ok with too. But partially supporting printing, only to the
default filehandle, I don't think is a good idea. You're gonna end up
with lots of nasty code that way, which this RFC would otherwise
prevent.
-Nate
