Re: RFC: println()

[email protected] (Jon Ericson) Mon, 07 Aug 2000 18:50:17 -0700
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Ed Mills wrote:
> 
> I actually saw this in the newsgroups and thought it was a neat idea. What
> about
> 
>    println $textvar;
> 
> instead of
> 
>    print "$textvar\n";
> 
> Ever so much easier to read and write, prints the arg and appends \n.

You can currently get this behaviour with print if you set $\ = "\n".  I
expect perl 6 to look more like perl 5 than Pascal.

Jon
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