Most honorable Monks:

One of the biggest first mistakes (or interface problem) people have programming in the Everything Engine is the use of print commands in embedded code blocks, when they typically want to append it to the return string: 

[% #typical first time user code
 print "hello $USER->{title}"; %]

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as opposed to 
[% #(one of the) right ways 
 return "hello $USER->{title}" %]

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The former will actually cause problems with some browsers, because printing to STDOUT prints "hello world" before the content-type header.

Q: Is there a way to override the print function to instead append to a string? Failing that, could you redirect STDOUT to a string? (putting it back in place, of course, before the header is printed) That seems like a rather ugly hack.

Thank you,

--nate

In reply to overloading the print function (or alternatives) by nate

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