There is a reason for there not being a println function in Perl. It is bad to have two functions that do exactly the same but with a small change. There is int() but no ceil(), floor(), fix(), round() etcetera, as all of those can be made using int(). POSIX has some of these, though.

Refactoring code to save only a few keystrokes also makes your code less readable. Suppose you have five listing functions that do the same, but format their output a little different. It would probably be a good idea to have a single function that takes an extra argument instead of five separate functions.

There really isn't an easy way to create your own println, as there is (correct me if I'm wrong) no way to emulate prints "print HANDLE LIST" syntax. Well, a source filter might take you there, but that will never be exactly the same.

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