Michael Fowler wrote:
> Or maybe we need a more generic solution (as someone else suggested, I
> forget who). Something that allows the arbitrary execution of code, much
> like @{[ ]}, but cleaner. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything
> suitable.
>
> Whatever direction this discussion take
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:36:50 -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
>Or maybe an alternative, using &:
>
>"foo &foo(arg, arg, arg) bar"
>"foo &{ foo(arg, arg, arg) } bar"
Ah, yes, &{...}, I kinda like that. Unfortunately, in regexes, /&{1,3}/
means matching 1 to three ampersands. There's a slight
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:58:26AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> MJD has a "silly module" which can tie a hash to a function:
> Interpolation.pm. I think I would like a special case, a specific hash
> that is *always* tied to a function that returns the arguments. Make it,
> for example, %$, %@ or %
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:31:44PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> A possibility that does not appear in RFC222.1 is to put tho whole
> accessor expression inside curlies:
>
> print "Today's weather will be ${weather->temp} degrees and sunny.";
>
> which would follow the "You want something
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:37:22 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> print "Today's weather will be ${weather->temp} degrees and sunny.";
>
>which would follow the "You want something funny in your interpolated
>scalar's name or reference, you put it in curlies" rule.
I too feel that an approach li
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:37:22PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> A possibility that does not appear in RFC222.1 is to put tho whole
> accessor expression inside curlies:
>
> print "Today's weather will be ${weather->temp} degrees and sunny.";
>
> which would follow the "You want something
>
> Method calls should interpolate in double-quoted strings, and similar
> locations.
>
> print "Today's weather will be $weather->temp degrees and sunny.";
A possibility that does not appear in RFC222.1 is to put tho whole
accessor expression inside curlies:
print "Today's weath
First of all, I think this is a great idea
On 14 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> Are there any contexts besides double quotes ("", qq{}, <<"EOF") where this
> need be applied? What about inside regexes? And if so, left and/or right
> hand side?
Regexes are enough like double quoted str
