Re^6: puts vs say

... which usually corrects newline-ed-ness automagically.

maybe I should make my my point clearer: IMHO DWIM-Magic has to be predictable and orthogonal.

Chomping only the last parameter doesn't look orthogonalš to me. And I doubt that the group who doesn't want chomping is smaller than the other group. If I'm wrong this situation might only be solved by providing puts() additionally to say().

I personally regularly redefine $\="\n" locally, to make print acting like say, so I think there is a wide need for say() ... but I never ever bothered about extra newlines.

Perl isn't PHP or Cobol, you can't serve every tiny group ... they always have the possibility to use special modules for their needs.

Cheers Rolf

(š) And I don't think we should make perl even more unorthogonal ...

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Re^7: puts vs say by jettero (Monsignor) on Feb 28, 2009 at 17:20 UTC
What I'm saying is: why bother with say at all. Why not write your own say that does what you want? If say is meant to be a convenience function, then it should actually be convenient. -Paul	[reply]
Re^8: puts vs say by Lawliet (Curate) on Feb 28, 2009 at 19:30 UTC
It is extremely convenient for me. :) And you didn't even know bears could type.	[reply]
Re^9: puts vs say by jettero (Monsignor) on Feb 28, 2009 at 20:27 UTC
It could be more convenient... UPDATE: but it'd be more convenient for me. -Paul	[reply]
Re^10: puts vs say by Lawliet (Curate) on Mar 01, 2009 at 00:32 UTC