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Re^3: (Sort of) poll: what Perl6 features do you consider {likely,desirable} to leak into P5?by BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Mar 09, 2005 at 20:05 UTC ( [id://438029]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I've tried Perl6::Say, but found it wanting. The list of caveats regarding the type of filehandles it will work with is annoying. I tend to store file handles in hash elements quite frequently, and use indirect object notation print { $fhs{INPUT} } $stuff;, and that doesn't work with P6::Say. I'm not ready to give up the simplicity of that notation and move to $fhs{INPUT}->say .... If filehandles were truely OO constructs, complete with independant settings for $/, $\, $=, $., $^ etc. etc., then it would be a different matter...but they aren't. If say were implemented within the language, it would be barely any code at all. Just a stub sub, pp_say, that localised $\ and set it to "\n", and then calls pp_print() would probably be all was required, but it would 'Just work'. I think it would be a very useful addition to Perl5--but then I'm biased against having to add zillions of ."\n"s :) Examine what is said, not who speaks.
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