* david nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-13 13:56]: > Acme::please is for randomly inserting " please" into your > output via a tied scalar. The string and printing percentage > are both configurable (see the documentation.)
It would be nice if there were a way to correlate two instances of the variable. Along the lines of your example, I might do something like print "would you$please shut the door$please?"; but in your current version there's a chance that this might print " please" twice, which would be undesired. You could also have an array which would makes sure that once a "please" was printed for a certain index, it won't ever happen again. Then the above example would read print "would you$please[1] shut the door$please[1]?"; and there'd be no chance I'd ever get "would you please shut the door please?". Of course there are also cases where you'd want more text than just the please to dis-/appear depending on its presence, but they we're zeroing in to something close to a fullblown templating system, and we wouldn't want another one of those on CPAN.. :-) -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
