16 Oct 2005 fxn   » (Master)

Perl documentation patch

I sent a patch to clarify the documentation of the variables $, and $\ in perlvar.pod. The current documentation of $, reads:

The output field separator for the print operator. Ordinarily the print operator simply prints out its arguments without further adornment. To get behavior more like awk, set this variable as you would set awk's OFS variable to specify what is printed between fields. (Mnemonic: what is printed when there is a "," in your print statement.)

After some feedback from Michael G Schwern the rewording seems much more concise and clear:

The output field separator for the print operator. If defined, this value is printed between each of print's arguments. Default is undef. (Mnemonic: what is printed when there is a "," in your print statement.)

The documentation of $\ has been reworded in a similar way.

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