id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc lang patch platform 2113 FileHandle .puts and .print whiteknight "The two methods .print and .puts on the FileHandle PMC are nearly identical. .puts takes a STRING and .print takes a PMC and converts it to a string using VTABLE_get_string. However, Parrot's PCC system will automatically coerce a PMC argument to a STRING parameter using VTABLE_get_string, so these two sequences are identical. Both methods call Parrot_io_putps with the string value. The only significant difference is that .print returns nothing while .puts returns the return value from Parrot_io_putps. I suggest we merge the two methods. I don't care which name we keep, although ""print"" seems a little bit more friendly and non-C than ""puts"" does. The method can take a STRING (relying on argument autoconversion) and can return the Parrot_io_putps status value. The amount of work to merge these methods should be small. However, we are going to need a deprecation cycle to do it." cage new trivial core master low