Re^2: error message in the end of the array looping?

This surely popped somewhere else here in PM (I kinda remember something), but I did a supersearch for $/ without finding anything applicable. Why:

print 'We have a match.', $/
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instead of

print "We have a match.\n"
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(apart from TIMTOWTDI)? Pointers welcome!

Flavio
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

Don't fool yourself.

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Re^3: error message in the end of the array looping? by Zaxo (Archbishop) on May 30, 2006 at 10:51 UTC
Force of habit, mainly. I usually prefer giving print a list to concatenating strings and variables first. The habit just carries over to control characters like this, too. I used to believe that $/ had some advantage over "\n" in platform independence, but I'm over that now. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]