Re: RFC 30 (v2) STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR should be renamed

Perl6 Rfc Librarian <[email protected]> writes:
>
>In addition, this RFC recommends deprecating select(), since it is no
>longer needed with the new fileobject approach described in RFC 14.
>
>
>   $oldoutput = select($newoutput);
>
>Can now be written simply as reassignments:
>
>   $oldoutput = $STDOUT;
>   $STDOUT = $filehandle;

But that is _NOT_ what select() does:

   $olddef = select($newdef);
   print $STDOUT "Still goes to $STDOUT";
   print "This goes to $newdef";

select sets the default for a print with no handle specified it does NOT 
change STDOUT.

It will be impossible to translate many perl5 programs to perl6 if 
that difference is not retained somehow.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons