Re: default $/ (was Re: RFC: println())

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:46:41PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> interesting point: we are all in agreement for filehandle specific $/
> and $\. but what about global default values for those handles which hve
> not had theirs set? you can still set the global $/ and affect all
> handles which don't have private $/.

That word "global" bothers me.  We can have default settings for
$STDIN, $STDOUT, $STDERR that vary as well as default settings on
filehandles opened by the user.  But changing $/ shouldn't affect all
of them.  $/ should go away.

MHO,

-Scott
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