default $/ (was Re: RFC: println())

2000-08-08 Thread Uri Guttman
"BL" == Bart Lateur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BL On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 01:29:47 GMT, Ed Mills wrote: I actually saw this in the newsgroups and thought it was a neat idea. What about println $textvar; i am against println. it is not so useful that i would be using it a lot. BL

Re: default $/ (was Re: RFC: println())

2000-08-08 Thread Peter Scott
At 01:46 PM 8/8/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: interesting point: we are all in agreement for filehandle specific $/ and $\. but what about global default values for those handles which hve not had theirs set? you can still set the global $/ and affect all handles which don't have private $/. i

Re: default $/ (was Re: RFC: println())

2000-08-08 Thread Ted Ashton
Thus it was written in the epistle of Uri Guttman, interesting point: we are all in agreement for filehandle specific $/ and $\. but what about global default values for those handles which hve not had theirs set? you can still set the global $/ and affect all handles which don't have

Re: default $/ (was Re: RFC: println())

2000-08-08 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:50:35PM -0400, Ted Ashton wrote: Hear, hear! Chomp (which I still consider a useful critter :-), needs a $/ sort of thing to know what to chomp and the lines it chomps may or may not have come from a given file. Chomping *is* useful, but it's a per-filehandle

Re: default $/ (was Re: RFC: println())

2000-08-08 Thread Uri Guttman
"JSD" == Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JSD On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:46:41PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: interesting point: we are all in agreement for filehandle specific $/ and $\. but what about global default values for those handles which hve not had theirs set?

Re: default $/ (was Re: RFC: println())

2000-08-08 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:44:59PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: the key word besides global is default. this would be the value used by any new filehandle created. you can override that at anytime in that filehandle. otherwise the default value for $/ for new handles will be hardcoded in %CONFIG