On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Zoffix Znet via RT
<perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> On Sun Sep 11 15:29:45 2016, tbrowder wrote:
>> Uh, say "what?" :)
>
> I don't think that works as a justification. The put() is used much more 
> frequently than printf(),
> so it makes sense to have it as a "\n"-adding alternative to print().
...
> You literally save 1 character of typing in a not the most used subroutine,
> all for the price of 4 extra routines for developers to maintain and
> document and for users to remember and debug when they miss
> the `n` at the end of the sub name.

I would give up the fmt() routine if necessary to avoid extra maintenance.

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