Re: equivalent of perl $/

Daniel Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
25 Jan 1995 15:23:34 +1100

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Aaron Watters <aaron@funcity.njit.edu> wrote:
>I don't see why an
>alternate f.readline_terminated(terminator) couldn't be added
>to fileobject.c.

This was my first idea.

>Maybe something more "OO" style like a "terminator"
>attribute to files could be in order?

But this seems nicer.

>Perl5 steals from Python, maybe Python should
>return the complement in this case, among others. -a.

I haven't seen Perl 5; what has it stolen from Python?

Danny Yee.

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