Michael G. Schwern wrote:
> So it's not the pipe. Something in vmsperl has decided that you always
> need a newline at the end of a print.
>
> $ perl -e "print 'foo'"
> foo
> $
[snip]
> Compare with what is supposed to happen:
>
> $ perl -e 'print "foo"'
> foo$
>
> No mandatory newline.
I think that the stdio to tty comm channel requires it at image
rundown. Note the similar behavior of a C program:
$ type try.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("foo");
return(0);
}
$ cc try
$ link try
$ run try
foo
$
Note too that perl behaves in the non-Unix way on Windows also
(win2k running perl 5.6.1 here):
C:\>perl -e "print 'foo'"
foo
C:\>
I suspect that the switch.t test needs attention on that platform as well.
Peter Prymmer
