Re: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-25 Thread david nicol reading obsolescent UMKC mailboxes
James Ryley wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if anything ever became of the comments at > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00318.html? > > I have an application that would benefit from double interpolation. Of > course I can work around it, but double interpolation would be so much > cleaner. Was

Re: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-05 Thread Luke Palmer
> By ultimate control, I meant that if you have an interpolate command, > you can then do whatever you want at each stage. You could do: > > $z = interpolate interpolate $y; Good point. Well, we were brainstorming macros for a reason ;). But an efficient version would be nice, I suppose.

Re: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-05 Thread Luke Palmer
On 4 Apr 2002, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:09, Luke Palmer wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, James Ryley wrote: > > > How 'bout: > > > > $foo = 'def'; > > $bar = 'ghi'; > > $y = 'abc$foo$bar'; > > $z = eval qq{"$y"}; > > > > Of course, for security and correctness reasons, you

RE: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-05 Thread James Ryley
> > How 'bout: > > > > $foo = 'def'; > > $bar = 'ghi'; > > $y = 'abc$foo$bar'; > > $z = eval qq{"$y"}; > > > > Of course, for security and correctness reasons, you'd probably want to: > > > > $y =~ s/\\//g; > > $y =~ s/"!/\\"/g; > > Why would "\\t" not double-interpolate to a tab? Also, why w

Re: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce-rfc@perl.org/msg00318.html

2002-04-04 Thread Luke Palmer
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, James Ryley wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anything ever became of the comments at > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00318.html? > > I have an application that would benefit from double interpolation. Of > course I can work around it, but double interpolation would be so muc