r29326 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-12-11 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-12-11 21:31:19 +0100 (Fri, 11 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29326 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: [S32/IO] reduce bare say/print to warning Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod ===

Re: r29326 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-12-11 Thread yary
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, wrote: ... > -It is a compiler error to use a bare C without arguments. > +The compiler will warn you if use a bare C without arguments. >  (However, it's fine if you have an explicit argument list that evaluates to >  the empty list at runtime.) > > +    print;

Re: r29326 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-12-11 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:44:21PM -0800, yary wrote: : What's the reasoning behind not using older perl convention of print : w/no args becoming "print $_" ? In Perl 6 we're trying to get rid of all the arbitrary lists that you have to memorize to use Perl 5, such as which symbols are magically g