Re^5: Data::Dumper output

To continue to use \n, use a list with print ...

Yes. Although I'd use a separate line for clarity
print Dumper $data_structure;
print "\n";
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Just use say:

say Dumper $data_structure;
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say outputs a trailing newline unless the arguments already contain a trailing newline.

I just feel that is clearer and less prone to the sort of error I created.

I'm no Lisp guy, but using a few more brackets helps to avoid ambiguity and misunderstandings between humans and computers. If you call a function or method, add brackets around the argument list. That's what I do, with only very few exceptions - mostly stuff that is listed in perlfunc, but behaves more like a keyword or a C macro (__FILE__, __LINE__, __PACKAGE__, do, eval, package, use, require) than like a function.

I would have written ...

say Dumper($data_structure);
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... in code for perl 5.10 and newer (i.e. with use v5.10 in the file), or ...

print Dumper($data_structure),"\n";
# or
print Dumper($data_structure)."\n";
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... in code for older perls.

Alexander

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Re^6: Data::Dumper output by hippo (Bishop) on May 08, 2021 at 22:45 UTC
`say` outputs a trailing newline unless the arguments already contain a trailing newline. Are you sure about that? The documentation makes no mention of such a condition and this example suggests that it is not the case: `$ cat say.pl #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; my $x = "foo\n"; my $y = 'bar'; say $x; say $y; $ ./say.pl foo bar $` [download] 🦛	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: Data::Dumper output by afoken (Chancellor) on May 09, 2021 at 09:51 UTC
say outputs a trailing newline unless the arguments already contain a trailing newline. Are you sure about that? The documentation makes no mention of such a condition and this example suggests that it is not the case: D'oh! Of course, you are right, `say` simply appends a newline, and that's also what's written in the documentation. The "add a newline unless there is already one" is my mental model of `say`, and my code never proved me wrong - because I never called it with a string already containing a trailing newline. And to make things worse, I even linked to the documentation in Re^5: Data::Dumper output. I wonder why my mental model of `say` is wrong. A blame on perlfunc states that the documentation hasn't changed for two years, and has no relevant changes since `say` was introduced. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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