Re: RFC 181 (v1) Formats out of core / New format syntax

[David L. Nicol]

Johan Vromans wrote:

>      my $file_format = qf(
>   @<<<<<<<<<<<<<:  @<<<<<<<<
>   $name, $ssn
>   );
> 
> Now, $file_format would be a Format object (compare this with qr//,
> that produces a Regex object).


or the proposed qs// which would produce a packed structure definition