How can Perl's print add a newline by default?

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Published on 2010-05-24T18:40:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 5:01 UTC
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In Perl most of my print statements take the form

print "hello." . "\n";

Is there a nice way to avoid keeping all the pesky "\n"s lying around?

I know I could make a new function such as myprint that automatically appends \n, but it would be nice if I could override the existing print.

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