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Re^3: Why should I use perl 5.10?by moritz (Cardinal) |
on Nov 30, 2007 at 10:31 UTC ( [id://654079]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Wouldn't even println() have been a better naming choice?
Surely not! Perl builtins tend to be one word that can (syntactically) be read as plain English, with a few exceptions that come from POSIX system calls (like gethostbyname) And println is too long, compared to say ;-) The word say suggests some I/O similar to print, which in fact it is. The exact semantics are not obvious, but they aren't hard to learn.
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