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Nice (Score:2)
OT: Tee? (Score:1)
Any reason IO::Tee [cpan.org] didn’t do it for you? Or why it should be a top-level namespace?
Re: (Score:1)
There were a few reasons why not IO::Tee:
I needed portable command-line teeing of non-perl programs (e.g. make) with STDOUT and STDERR redirection -- IO::Tee only tees Perl handles within Perl programs.
For the ptee program, I could have used IO::Tee, but that would have been overkill for the purpose and would have added a dependency.
Plus IO::Tee would have meant extra tie overhead when I didn't need any of that.
As for the namespace, I think we've moved past the point where people are finding t