On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:11:39PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:04:41PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> >
> > > seconded by Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Except that I don't think adding this feature to the existing q{...}
> > is a good idea. If I had to vote on your proposal, I would instantaly
> > vote against it. I think you should have invented a new operator or a
> > pragma or something.
>
> Agreed.
>
> One could for example have a pragma to *really* tag variables
> lexically to be expanded within singlequotes. Or for that matter,
> *not* to be expanded within doublequotes.
Failing that, another possibility would be to have a new qSOMETHING()
op, and its interpolation rules, as in my original rough idea. But I
do think we have enough different quotish contexts already.
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