> >The rule is easier ("print always goes to $STDOUT, whatever that
> >contains") and there's not select() overhead. Everything else should be
> >object methods, making stuff clearer still.
>
> And it is also a pain in the butt.
>
> select *LOG;
> do_stuff();
>
> sub do_stuff {
> print "this stuff goes somewhere\n";
> print STDOUT "we printed stuff somewhere\n";
> }
Good point, I hadn't thought of this specific situation. select() can
stay. :-) Note, though, that you still wouldn't have to pass a
filehandle to do_stuff() without select. You just wouldn't be able to
intermingle $STDOUT and $LOG easily.
To summarize, RFCs 14, 30, and 33 taken together say the above will be
written as:
$LOG = open ">>/path/to/log";
select $LOG;
do_stuff();
sub do_stuff {
print "this stuff goes somewhere\n";
print $STDOUT "we printed stuff to somewhere\n";
}
in Perl 6. Not a huge change, just that bareword filehandles and
typeglobs are getting replaced with full-featured fileobjects.
v3 will take the part about select() out.
-Nate
