[ABE.pm] perl 5.10 rules! - say what?

Michael C. Toren mct at toren.net
Thu May 31 19:20:11 PDT 2007


On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:23:27AM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> say is stolen from Perl 6.  It's just like print, but it prints a newline when
> you're done.  Seriously, that's it!
> 
>   print "Nice to meet you, ", $ENV{USER}, ".\n";
>   say "Nice to meet you, ", $ENV{USER}, ".";

Hmm, somewhat of a shame it wasn't named "puts", to mirror the function
of the same name in ruby, etc...

-mct


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