Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:54:27PM -0400, Bryan C.Warnock wrote:
> > There should be an C<implicit> pragma that gives new life and meaning to
> > void context constructs. In my case, I want it to print to the default
> > filehandle, (which is also implicit, I might add.)
>
> Well, one of the rumors bandied about was that the whole concept of
> "default filehandle" or "current filehandle" would go away. It
> wouldn't do to build a dependancy on a feature that's going away :-)
>
> But, hey, at least it'll give people a reason to do grep or map in
> void context ;-)
>
> Anyway, I really don't see a need or use for this.
I dunno. I think it'd be neat. Especially for all those quick and
dirty perl hacks that you used to do with sed/awk/cut and friends.
