Re: Default filehandles(was Re: command line option: $|++)

[Nathan Wiger]

Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:57:46PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > This is a succinct summary of the basic conclusions thus far:
> >
> >    1. a default filehandle IS needed sometimes, but only
> >       for stuff like print
> 
> Well, I think that C<print> should always print to $PERL::STDOUT (or
> whatever we call it) always; same with C<printf()>.  I'd hardly call that
> "default" though.

Read the link I sent out. There's a reason this doesn't work.

-Nate