Sounds like a deep version of map...
Regards, -- Gregor On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 06:02, Jens Rieks wrote: > 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 -- Gregor Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Research, Inc. http://www.focusresearch.com/
