Re: slight discrepancy between S2 and S7

[Larry Wall]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:26:48PM +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote:
: S2:
:
: my $foo = 42;
: say %MY::<$foo>; # prints "42"
:
: S6:
:
: Perl5ish subroutine declarations
: ...
: sub say { print qq{"@_"\n}; } # args appear in @_
:
:
: Because C<print> has no final newline, I would expect C<say> will have
: one. Final newline or not. What is your say?

Yes, the built-in C<say> certainly adds a newline. That's the only thing
that distinguishes it from C<print>. The comment in S2 is misleading,
but you shouldn't ever believe the comments anyway. :-)

Or the Subject line. Yours seems to have suffered a bitflip somewhere...

Larry

[Stéphane Payrard]

S2:

my $foo = 42;
say %MY::<$foo>; # prints "42"

S6:

Perl5ish subroutine declarations
...
sub say { print qq{"@_"\n}; } # args appear in @_

Because C<print> has no final newline, I would expect C<say> will have
one. Final newline or not. What is your say?

--
stef