Re: RFC 39 Perl should have a print operator

Jon Ericson wrote: > I had considered this, but I don't want Yet Another Quote-like Operator > (YAQO). Perhaps I should just change this RFC to call for a built-in > tee operator: > > push @lines, tee($_) for <>; > I would vote strongly against a built-in "tee" operator. You can achieve the

Re: RFC 39 Perl should have a print operator

Ken Rich wrote: > How about quotes? A quoted lhs expression could mean print. A quoted lhs > expression preceded by a file handle could mean print to filehandle. Have you seen ? > Tom Christiansen's complaint seems irrelevant to me because a print > statement i

Re: RFC 39 Perl should have a print operator

>Perl supplies an operator for line input - angle brackets. This is no >analogous operator for output. I propose "inverse angle brackets": How about quotes? A quoted lhs expression could mean print. A quoted lhs expression preceded by a file handle could mean print to filehandle. Tom Christi