Re: $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR strikes against LWP
Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:46:02 +0000
> From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
>
> Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> writes:
>
> >Perhaps every library module should start out with these lines:
> >
> > local($_);
> > local($/) = "\n";
> > local($#) = "%.20g";
> > local($,) = "";
> > local($\) = "";
> > local($*) = 0;
>
> I intent to add this list to IO::Handle::write :-)
It'll be hard enough getting people to pay the method call overhead
without this as well.
I'd suggest adding another method for this. Perhaps $fh->write_norm.
Anyway, people may have legitimate reasons for playing with those values.
Tim.