Re^3: curly braces around a lexical file handle

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Re^4: curly braces around a lexical file handle by moritz (Cardinal) on May 31, 2010 at 13:08 UTC
Well, it's new syntax, so it's no surprise you need to learn somthing about it. It becomes clearer if you think more about: A method call (and `$a.print: $b` is a method call) can have one invocant, but many ordinary arguments. Which one is special, the invocant or the first, ordinary argument? When you see `$a.print: $b, $c, $d, $d;` [download] Do you still think that `$a` is printed to file handle `$b`? Or to all of the arguments, all treated as file handles? That would be a very bad huffman coding...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: curly braces around a lexical file handle by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 31, 2010 at 17:00 UTC
That would be a very bad huffman coding... Only if you think `$o.print: $fh;` precludes `$fh.print: $o;` from existing. There's no reason both can't exist. That said, I would call the former "`dump`" rather than "`print`". `$o.dump; $o.dump: $fh;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]