Re^6: perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print

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Ah...I thought it was just an indirect method call...didn't know it was it's own special operator... Does it still have to be it's own special operator? I.e. are there places where the indirect method call wouldn't give the same behavior? (Apparently there were in the past, but what about now?)....

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Re^7: perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 16, 2013 at 18:35 UTC
Assuming you're ok with breaking every program that does `print $x`, how would you implement IO::Handle::print without the print operator? There are other issues, but they're not worth mentioning after the above two.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print by perl-diddler (Chaplain) on Mar 16, 2013 at 20:06 UTC
Um, I suppose I'm not sure I see the difference between a method called print, called indirectly, that appears to do the same thing as C<print> the operator. Could you explain the difference to someone to whom it is not obvious? ;-)	[reply]
Re^9: perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 17, 2013 at 00:03 UTC
Without an explicit filehandle, where does the output of `print $x` go? How is Perl to tell the difference between "print the contents of `$_` to the filehandle in `$x`" from "print the contents of `$x` to the currently selected filehandle"?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^10: perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print by perl-diddler (Chaplain) on Mar 20, 2013 at 03:15 UTC
Re^9: perl 5.12 BSD portability (CPAN test result)...print by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 19, 2013 at 01:21 UTC
So you want me to explains how it's impossible to write the method without the `print` operator? Well, why don't you try it. Or are you asking me to explain why they don't do the same thing? Well, consider `>perl -le"$x = 'abc'; print $x;" abc` [download] As you can see, it doesn't call the method `$x` of class `abc`. If it was an indirect method call, it would have the following outcome: `>perl -le"$x = 'abc'; $x->print;" Can't locate object method "print" via package "abc" (perhaps you forg +ot to load "abc"?) at -e line 1.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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