Re^7: Regarding STDOUT and indirect object notation for print

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Well that's a major exaggeration. The cost of loading IO::Handle would be quite small if it was rewritten in C. (100 bytes?) In fact, there already exists modules whose methods are built right into Perl: utf8, version and UNIVERSAL, for example.

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Re^8: Regarding STDOUT and indirect object notation for print by kennethk (Abbot) on Dec 29, 2009 at 22:17 UTC
It is an exaggeration, but there was clearly a design decision to keep perl lean and mean. Just trying to make a point succinctly, and histrionics seemed an easy way to do it. It does seems odd to me that they'd include the implicit blessing without populating the namespace. I suppose it's a nod to the roll-your-own option.	[reply]

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