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 it ever

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 would \\ not double

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'd probably want to:

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

2002-04-04 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 much