From: Marc Perry <marcperrys...@gmail.com> > I noticed that most beginner texts will introduce and use print like this: > > print $moose, $squirrel, $boris, "\n"; > > However, when I review code from CPAN, I often (typically) see: > > print $bullwinkle . $rocky . $natasha . "\n"; > > As I recall, print is a list operator (and therefore the comma syntax is > used to separate items in a list), but is catenation somehow faster/more > memory efficient?
Compared with the price of the IO operation the concatenation versus passing several values is irrelevant. I do not dare to guess which one is more efficient in what circumstances, but I don't think the difference matters. Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
