What do print and say return?
fail would be great on errors. On success, they return 1 now, which
doesn't look very useful. How about returning the printed string? Unless
called in void context, of course.
(This introduces a potential semipredicate problem when looking at the
return value of a
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 14:56 +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
(This introduces a potential semipredicate problem when looking at the
return value of a printed 0 or while not using fatal, but the
code can use a defined guard.)
I don't know if returning the printed string is the right approach, but
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:25:12AM -0700, chromatic wrote:
: On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 14:56 +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
:
: (This introduces a potential semipredicate problem when looking at the
: return value of a printed 0 or while not using fatal, but the
: code can use a defined guard.)
:
: I
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:36:13AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
I don't see any reason to return the string at all. It's almost never
wanted, and you can always use .= or monkey but.
So: fail on failure bool::true on success? Pugs currently returns
bool::true.
Is there a way to tag a sub as
