[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Smylers wrote:
>> This, however, is irritating:
>>
>> my @new = map { s:e/$pattern/$replacement/; $_ } @old;
>>
>> So I'd like a more elegant way of writing that -- but I don't think
>> making the return value of C more complicated (and duplicating
>> data in the proces
David Chan writes:
> Hmmm. When doing multiple substitutions, it would be nice to avoid a
> hard-to-read nested function call which reads backwards, a la python:
>
> return re.sub('>','>',re.sub('<','<',re.sub('&','&',text)))
>
> ... but to also avoid multiple statements like this:
>
> my $