At 12:04 AM 8/7/00 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 01:38:13 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> >>Even in perl5 an XS module can do _anything at all_.
> >
> >It can't access data the lexer's already tossed out. That's where the
> >current format format (so to speak) runs you into trouble.
>
>Only if you insist on the identical syntax as it has been until now. You
>can cock something together something with here-docs. Implementation can
>at least partly be based upon sprintf.
You can fake it now, sure. But it makes embedding expressions in the
format-replacement a pain, and complicates the code a bit.
Besides, what formats let you do is nice, and quite easy. Rather than force
people to jump through hoops so we can remove it, we should instead
generalize what it does so everyone can use it.
Dan
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