Re: RFC 39 Perl should have a print operator

2000-09-05 Thread Eryq
Jon Ericson wrote: 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 ; I would vote strongly against a built-in "tee" operator. You can achieve the same

Re: RFC 39 Perl should have a print operator

2000-09-02 Thread Ken Rich
Perl supplies an operator for line input - angle brackets. This is no analogous operator for output. I propose "inverse angle brackets": How about quotes? A quoted lhs expression could mean print. A quoted lhs expression preceded by a file handle could mean print to filehandle. Tom