Re: RFC 39 (v3) Perl should have a print operator

[Tom Christiansen]

>Jon Ericson wrote:
>> 
>> Agreed.  Good style would avoid this problem.  The example in the
>> synopsis of this RFC should be:
>> 
>>   my $output = >"Print this line.\n"<;

>Would this be solved if print returned the string it printed? This seems
>to be what everyone's getting at:

>   my $output = print $r->name . " is $age years old\n";

*Why* would you want that?  What's the practical use?  I cannot ever 
recall writing, or wishing for, anything like this:

    sub what_print_would_print_if_print_would_print_what_print_would_print {
        return join($, => @_) . $\; 
    } 

--tom