Moritz Lenz writes:
> I've tried to answer that here: http://faq.perl6.org/#say
Thanks. (And more than tried, I reckon you've succeeded.)
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Am 28.06.2012 23:43, schrieb Smylers:
Patrick R. Michaud writes:
print will stringify its arguments and write them to $*OUT.
say will invoke .gist on its arguments and write them (along with a
final newline) to $*OUT.
Hi there. What's the rationale for the difference there?
Under what circu
Patrick R. Michaud writes:
> print will stringify its arguments and write them to $*OUT.
>
> say will invoke .gist on its arguments and write them (along with a
> final newline) to $*OUT.
Hi there. What's the rationale for the difference there?
Under what circumstances are each likely to be use
Oops, typo:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:39:22AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> To get say to act like "print with a newline", one can do
>
> say [~] ar
That should be
say [~] arg1, arg2, arg3 ...
For the 'a'.WHAT case, this gives
> say [~] 'a'.WHAT
use of uninitialized valu
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:41:48PM +0530, Siddhant Saraf wrote:
> (In Rakudo's REPL)
>
> > say 'a'.WHAT;
> Str()
> > print 'a'.WHAT;
> use of uninitialized variable $v of type Str in string context
> True
> >
>
> What is happening here? Is this a bug?
> ( Coz I don't see any $v variable anywhere
> May I also take this opportunity to ask someone to explain to me what
> exactly are the
> differences between say and print?
Might be that "say" calls ".gist" whereas "print" stringifies?
> May I also take this opportunity to ask someone to explain to me what
> exactly are the differences between say and print?
>
I can't help you with the tricky stuff, but the difference between
"say" and "print" is that "say" appends a newline (\n) to the output,
while "print" doesn't.
The \n is
(In Rakudo's REPL)
> say 'a'.WHAT;
Str()
> print 'a'.WHAT;
use of uninitialized variable $v of type Str in string context
True
>
What is happening here? Is this a bug? ( Coz I don't see any $v
variable anywhere.)
What is the "True" indicating?
(in niecza's REPL)
niecza> say 'a'.WHAT;
Str()
niecz
