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ikegami
<blockquote><p><i>Not always, at least for me, with which version did you check?</i></blockquote>
<p>It apparently went missing until 5.16.
<blockquote><p><i>As a minor nitpick, according to the definitions in perlglossary I'd rather use </i>built-in<i> and not </i>operator<i> to describe <c>say</c>, though the differences are indeed fuzzy.</i></blockquote>
<p><i>Builtin functions</i> are a slight superset of what both perlop and perlfunc call <i>list operators</i> and <i>named unary operators</i>. <c>say</c> is a builtin because <c>say</c> is a <i>list operator</i>. (It's fuzzy which builtins aren't operators.)
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