On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:23:10PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 1/23/19 4:44 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I agree that it would be better to drop this "feature" of Perl. > > It is probably never used, and probably useless (I would rather > > use the features from the shell if I need a pipe). > > Perl's open is well documented. Quoting the perlipc: > > "it's much more efficient to process the file one line or record at a > time because then you don't have to read the whole thing into memory at > once."
This is a red herring. Prepending a pipe to a perl command doesn't require reading the whole thing into memory. > Please stop making python out of perl :) This makes no sense in context, since Python programs routinely process files a line at a time. Surely this is just derailing? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]