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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
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Subject: Newlines in prints
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Date: 20 Feb 91 15:59:58 GMT
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   From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)

   Well, you can save two characters by defining $n = "\n", but it sounds
   more like you want to set $\ to "\n" and then have a subroutine for
   printing without the newline:

This leaves various problems, mostly that setting $\ makes adding the
newlines mandatory.  Also, a subroutine for printing won't have the
same syntax as "print".  What I want is a quick-n-easy punctuation
mark that can be inserted at the end (and preferably anywhere) in the
list argument of "print" that means "insert an element into the list
here which is a string containing a newline".

Of course, all the punctuation marks are taken up.  :-(

Perhaps we need to add a new punctuation digraph!

Dale

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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