>>>>> "BC" == Bernie Cosell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<cced perl6-language>
BC> I wonder if the solution is to look at it the other way: that you
BC> have to do something to get interpolation to happen. If we look
BC> at it from the old adage of making the more common things simpler,
BC> at least in my code I very rarely interpolate arrays [and I
BC> suspect I'd even LESS often interpolate hashes], I wouldn't mind
BC> the syntax going the other way -- maybe "@" never interpolates and
BC> you need to do "\@" to make interpolation happen [and then
BC> similarly with '%']... This is also simlar to the logic behind
BC> Perl's reversing the longstanding unix convention WRT to chars
BC> like '(' in REs.
that is a good idea. the @() and $() things will interplate any
expressions into strings. so use a method on the hash to get a string
out and wrap it in $().
printf "%d hash is $(%foo.string)", $bar ;
no ambiguity and no confusion. how often will you need to interpolate a
hash? so make it more cumbersome as it is a rare thing. that is larry's
credo from way back. breaking % in a s/printf format is not good as that
is the very common thing to do.
uri
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