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| author | Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com> | 2019-07-20 11:40:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-07-20 15:53:01 -0600 |
| commit | c3d72fbe6ba0379df9f7ea44fc8195677cce0ade (patch) | |
| tree | cb0a7f6bc0a1ba6f9a8108b815f666971f55fa35 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 4a5ab54a18679ab24ca03190884d326c2ca85288 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c3d72fbe6ba0379df9f7ea44fc8195677cce0ade.tar.gz | |
update 'say' docs to better represent reality
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 0e50132907..066cd268db 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -6789,8 +6789,8 @@ X<say> =for Pod::Functions +say output a list to a filehandle, appending a newline Just like L<C<print>|/print FILEHANDLE LIST>, but implicitly appends a -newline. C<say LIST> is simply an abbreviation for -C<{ local $\ = "\n"; print LIST }>. To use FILEHANDLE without a LIST to +newline at the end of the LIST instead of any value L<C<$\>|perlvar/$\> +might have. To use FILEHANDLE without a LIST to print the contents of L<C<$_>|perlvar/$_> to it, you must use a bareword filehandle like C<FH>, not an indirect one like C<$fh>. |