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.