Re: RFC 174 (v1) Parse C as C

[Bart Lateur]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:55:11 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:

>One goal of my RFC was to promote the idea that this
>
>   print STDOUT @stuff;
>
>Could be written as:
>
>   print STDOUT, @stuff;
>
>Which actually clears something up. You know that STDOUT is now an
>argument, and NOT a function whose return value print is going to
>operate on.

Combine this with the RFC that bare filehandles must die, in favor of
$FH filehandles, and you won't be able to make the distinction between

        print $HANDLE, $string;
and
        print $string, $string;

In fact, it's already impossible to distinguish between

        print $HANDLE;
and
        print $string;

which essentially renders one of both illegal.

-- 
        Bart.