Re: RFC 39 Perl should have a print operator

Jon Ericson wrote:

> I had considered this, but I don't want Yet Another Quote-like Operator
> (YAQO).  Perhaps I should just change this RFC to call for a built-in
> tee operator:
> 
>   push @lines, tee($_) for <>;
> 

I would vote strongly against a built-in "tee" operator.
You can achieve the same effect by tying a filehandle to an
object which tees output.  Consider this hypothetical Perl5
snippet:

	use IO::Tee;

	my $OUT = IO::Tee->new(\*STDERR, "|logger", ">>my.log");
	
	print $OUT "Hello, nurse!\n";

And if you hate OO syntax, it could export a "tee" function
which would do the construction but be less ugly to look at:

	my $OUT = tee(\*STDERR, "|logger", ">>my.log");

I would really like to avoid adding more special operators
when their functionality is not really primitive.  
 
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