Re^2: Why won't say act like say when its tied?

It's only done that way for tied handles. Existing tie modules had to support say without being changed, and changing $\ allows that. I suppose they could have done

local $\;
->PRINT(@_);
->PRINT("\n");
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But if $\ is being localised anyway, might as well do

local $\ = "\n";
->PRINT(@_);
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