>>>>> "TA" == Ted Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TA> Thus it was written in the epistle of Jonathan Scott Duff,
>> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:56:12PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > a
>> couple of ideas. one, i proposed we keep a global $/ and $\ for >
>> default use by handles which haven't set their own.
>>
>> Rather than having global $/ and $\, each filehandle has their's
>> defaulted to something reasonable.
TA> I think that the point of the global $/ and $\ was to define
TA> "reasonable."
yup.
and the globals can be used by the magic <> which was asked by jonathan
scott. when you use <> you rarely IMO use many other handles. typically
<> is used in filter programs.
this makes perl5 bahavior the default which is nice and gives perl6 more
control with the handle specific vars.
uri
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