RFC 39 (v1) print operator

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=head1 TITLE

print operator

=head1 VERSION

  Maintainer: Jon Ericson <[email protected]>
  Date: 5 August 2000
  Version: 1
  Mailing List: [email protected]
  Number: 39

=head1 ABSTRACT

Perl supplies a operator for line input - angle
brackets.  This is no analogous operator for output. 
I propose "inverse angle brackets":

    >"Print this line.\n"<;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

=head2 Easy things should be easy

Output is already easy in Perl, but it could be
easier.

=head2 Symmetry

readline is to angle brackets as print is to inverse
angle brackets.  C++ uses >> for input and << for
output.  Perl uses <> for input and >< is for output. 
I sometimes see C<< print ">$x<\n"; >> used as a
debugging tool.  

=head2 Perl Golf and JAPHs

    perl -e 'print "Just Another Perl5 Hacker"'

    perl -e '>"Just Another Perl6 Hacker"<'

    perl -e '><><' # cat(1) 

    perl -e 'while(<>){>< if /^=head1/)' # Find the section titles in a pod file

=head1 IMPLEMENTATION

Let:

    >LIST<

be equivalent to:

    print(LIST)

Output always goes to stdout.  (print is still there
if you want it.)

Note the ambiguous cat(1) example above.  Are there
other potential problems parsing this print operator?

=head1 REFERENCES

  RFC 2 - Request For New Pragma: Implicit
  RFC 34 - Angle brackets should not be used for file globbing.
  perlfunc/print
  perlop/"I/O Operators"