I like -l but wish that there was a way to selectively counter-act it, as I occasionally (but not often) want to print a newline-less line. How do you handle these situations?
Localize $\. 
$\ = "\n";  # as perl -l
print "before";
{
    local $\;
    print "continued";
}
print "after";
print "heh!";

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which prints 
before
continuedafter
heh!
In fact, you can set $\ to anything, and with local, it's safe — or at least, as safe as using $\.

IMO, every module that uses print in a hidden fashion, should use 

  local $\;

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and not rely on $\ being empty at the time its functions are called.

Note that printf ignores the settings of $\.

In reply to Re: Re2 (-l): I don't use printf enough by bart
in thread I don't use printf enough by dreadpiratepeter

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