On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Zoffix Znet via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> On Sun Sep 11 15:29:45 2016, tbrowder wrote: > > Uh, say "what?" :) Just a little humour. Someone thought thought it was worth it to not have to explicitly add the newline on print, and I feel the same way about printf. ... I don't think that works as a justification. The put() is used much more > frequently than printf(), so it makes sense to have it as a "\n"-adding > alternative to print(). > But my main point was that with printf() you're writing the format string > anyway, so adding a \n into it is easy, as compared to adding one to > print(): ... > You literally save 1 character of typing in a not the most used > subroutine, I respectfully disagree, Zoffix. I used printf in Perl 5, to a file, for many years writing auto-generated documents, and I would have loved to have the equivalent of println (is that Java?). In addition, such a function would reduce code line noise quite a bit IMHO. Anyway, if we ever get printf for an IO::Handle, I would like to see something like I suggested.
