I think you are being too sensitive.

When merlyn says, If you prompt to STDOUT, I think most people (OK I do) will read that as, If you print an interactive message to STDOUT, which is what was meant.

Furthermore the phrase ...in general indicates a confused mind... does not say that Fastolfe in particular has a confused mind. It just says that this kind of mistake is symptomatic of a confused mind. Which it is. If you do not understand how <> differs from <STDIN>, that indicates confusion! Even worse, if you meant that you expect files in @ARGV to correctly hold responses to interactive commands in a script you are still changing, that indicates dangerous programming practices!

All of which goes to say that even though I had let merlyn's post pass before, I voted ++ to counteract your -- because I thought your reasoning was not very good.

UPDATE
I have been told that "prompt" was originally "print", which shows why - particularly when a point has caused comment - it is good to make it clear that there was an edit.

In reply to RE (tilly) 4: Answer: What is a good by tilly
in thread What is a good "Press any key to continue" code? by Anonymous Monk

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