Uri Guttman: # i disagree. but we shall see if larry is listening to this thread and # will back away from hash interpolation or take some of our suggestions # that make it work without killing format strings. i hate to see a # special call or wierd syntax for that. my qn (or qf) # suggestion seems to # have some backing and it is clean and unobtrusive.
I think qn counts as weird syntax. I ask again, what's wrong with one of: sprintf("%hash\%s", $string); sprintf(%hash.'%s', $string); sprintf('%s%s', _%hash, $string); ? --Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure) #define private public --Spotted in a C++ program just before a #include