Ken Rich wrote: > How about quotes? A quoted lhs expression could mean print. A quoted lhs > expression preceded by a file handle could mean print to filehandle. Have you seen <http://dev.perl.org/rfc/2.pod>? > Tom Christiansen's complaint seems irrelevant to me because a print > statement is already ugly in that visually interminable way. I think it is relevant because he is pointing out that >LONG_LIST< is potentially unclear. > Hm, maybe then I'd suggest shortening 'print' to 'o' for output: > > o//; > ...etc... I had considered this, but I don't want Yet Another Quote-like Operator (YAQO). Perhaps I should just change this RFC to call for a built-in tee operator: push @lines, tee($_) for <>; Jon -- Knowledge is that which remains when what is learned is forgotten. - Mr. King
