How do I reference print in Perl?

Question

How to link to print

?

I tried:

my $p = \&print;

But he throws:

Undefined subroutine &main::print

+3

ceving 04 Apr 17 at 12:28

1 answer

Zoffix Znet · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-04T12:36:21+0000

You can just wrap the anon environment around it and redirect the arguments:

my $p = sub { print @_ };
$p->("hi");

Also, the original non-backslash method works in Perl 6 :

my $p = &print; $p("hi")