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 funny in your interpolated
> scalar's name or reference, you put it in curlies" rule. Since the contents
> of that expression is not strictly \w+ it does not get interpreted as
> the symbol table lookup ${'weather->temp'}, so that is not a problem, nor
> are the whitespace situations listed in the CAVEATS section.
Could you write up some practical examples where this might be useful
(slapping whitespace between the -> and method name isn't practical or
useful). I'm loathe to muddle the meaning of ${bareword}.
It did make me think of something else. What about by-variable method
calls. That is:
my $meth = 'species';
print "How much is that $pet->$meth() in the window?";
This should deparse to:
my $meth = 'species';
print "How much is that ".$pet->$meth()." in the window?";
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