On 2004-03-26 at 08:16:07, Larry Wall wrote:
> And "say" isn't in there because of APL or PHP. It's actually inspired
> by something worse in Ruby.
Presumably by "something worse" you mean "puts"? Not a great name, to
be sure, but it does have a venerable tradition behind it. :)
I do like having an auto-newline-appending version of print (without
having to make *all* my prints behave that way via -l), and my Perl
scripts of late often begin with a
sub puts(@) { for (@_) { print "$_\n" } }.
Of course, then I start forgetting my semicolons . . .
-Mark
