How about a couple of sentences in the manual that say:
Slow down, cowboy! If you're thinking of skipping all of this concatenation rigamarole and just printing directly to the browser, stop. Remember, you're writing a component that has to be evaluated in the context of other components. No one knows what that's going to be until it actually happens. Take a deep breath, type 'my $str;', and you'll save yourself the time of wondering why your web browser seems to break.

It's really a behavioral issue. We can correct this with a filehandle tied to a scalar in the normal parsing mode. Every time evalCode returns, we just have to check for a chunk of CONTAINED_STUFF in the scalar, and put it in the right place. But in compiled mode, there's no good and clean way of doing that. (Mixing in calls to $tied_fh->get_and_clear() does not qualify as clean.)

I say, use the stick and not the carrot!

In reply to Re: overloading the print function (or alternatives) by chromatic
in thread overloading the print function (or alternatives) by nate

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