Re: RFC 39 (v3) Perl should have a print operator

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:46:03 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:

>Would this be solved if print returned the string it printed? This seems
>to be what everyone's getting at:
>
>   my $output = print $r->name . " is $age years old\n";

I think that's the idea... and print may return undef if it fails to
print, and the printed string otherwise (always defined, even if it's an
emtpy string).

Also,

        print @items;

should then return join($,, @items).$\
        
-- 
        Bart.