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in thread What technical benfits perl offers over python + few more questions.

I think the distinction being made is maybe that in (say) Java trying to print on a closed filehandle object would throw an IOException which your code would be required to handle, whereas perl  -E 'close(STDOUT);say qq{FOOP}' will run (producing no output but also not printing any sort of error (although you could check the return from say and print $!)).

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Re^6: What technical benfits perl offers over python + few more questions.
by Marshall (Canon) on Nov 15, 2021 at 21:17 UTC
    Of course if you "use warnings;", you will see the "print() on closed filehandle STDOUT" warning.
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      > Of course if you "use warnings;", you will see the "print() on closed filehandle STDOUT" warning.

      and ...

      Of course you can propagate warnings to die by changing $SIG{__WARN__} ;-)

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      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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Re^6: What technical benfits perl offers over python + few more questions.
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 15, 2021 at 21:59 UTC
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      I see what you mean. I am just starting with Python. Instead of handling the exception, it appears that:
      for value in some_iterable:
    print(value)

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      is the preferred syntax.
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