Re: print with newline

From:	Rowan Collins	Date:	Sun, 03 Mar 2019 14:33:36 +0000
Subject:	Re: print with newline
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On 02/03/2019 23:15, Steven Penny wrote:

4. introduce a new variable, perhaps "$OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR", "$ORS", "$\" or similar, that controls output record separator
Such magic is hard to debug and easily leads to bugs in user code.
you post this without recognizing that Perl and Ruby already have this for many years.

I think Johannes recognises that, but considers it a poor design choice on the part of those languages. Perl has a reputation as a rather cryptic, "write only" language, best suited to short, throw-away scripts, and cryptically named magic variables like this are a big part of that. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]