Hi, On Thursday 08 April 2004 23:49, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:28:49PM +0200, Jens Rieks wrote: > > Data::Replace replaces every occurrence of one PMC in a nested data > > structure with another PMC. > > I'm not sure what that means, but Data::Replace seems too vague. > What is it? if you have a data structure [A, B, [C, D, E], C, D, E], where each letter represents a PMC. With Data::Replace, you can for example replace each D PMC with another PMC value. Do you have a better name for it?
> > Data::Escape contains a function "String" that escapes the string. > > Wouldn't escape_string be better? What would be redundant, the namespace already contains "Escape". > (And I wonder how different languages escape strings, > and if there's a common subset that'll work for all/most of them.) Its C and PIR like escaping, it relaces some ASCII code with \n, \t, \r and replaces ' with \' in strings quoted with ', and " with \" in strings quoted with ". > Tim [wearing a tired old namespace police hat] :-) jens
