RE: rethinking printf

[David Whipp]

>       printf "%d hash is $(%foo.string)", $bar ;
> no ambiguity and no confusion.

This would be nice, if scalar things use '$'. But:

  perl5: printf "%d is $foo{bar}", $baz;
  perl6: printf "%d is $(%foo{bar})", $baz;

Not so nice.


Dave.