[MacPerl] \a \new question

[John Delacour <JD@EREMITA.demon.co.uk>]

This script gives an alert sound every second

        #!perl -w
        for $_ (1..8){
          print "\a\n";
          sleep 1;
        }

but if I omit the newline (print "\a") or add any other string not 
including a newline, the seconds and the bells are all added together 
and executed at once after 8 seconds.

Why is this?

J


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