Re: RFC 30 (v4) STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, and DATA should become scalars

2000-09-14 Thread Eryq
should, ultimately, be objects, as should directory handles. Just my 10 centimes, Eryq

Re: RFC 30 (v4) STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, and DATA should become scalars

2000-09-14 Thread Eryq
"David L. Nicol" wrote: 1. You must use globs to pass them in and out of functions This could be resolved by allowing undecorated types to be passed This is already allowed. It's called "passing in a bareword". And barewords are just strings. Are you proposing that "a bareword

Re: RFC 39 Perl should have a print operator

2000-09-05 Thread Eryq
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.