On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:15:36PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
: A2 says $*STDIN and $*STDOUT. Has this been changed?
It's $*IN and $*OUT.
: Also, will there no longer be the concept of a selected filehandle?
That is correct.
: I'd hate to have to specify stdin and stdout in throw away scripts.
Just because there's no longer a selected filehandle doesn't mean
you have to specify stdout. It's still the default. It's just no
longer the default default. Translated Perl 5 scripts that select
the current output filehandle will need to use an explicit variable
to hold the "default". The translator will also need to translate
idioms like
select((select(FOO),$| = 1)[0]);
to something like:
$FOO.autoflush = 1;
: I think I like this better:
:
: for <> {
: s:g/\w+/WORD/;
: print;
: }
That will work fine in Perl 6. It won't even chew up all your memory
as it would in Perl 5.
Larry
