On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 01:38:13 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:

>>Even in perl5 an XS module can do _anything at all_.
>
>It can't access data the lexer's already tossed out. That's where the 
>current format format (so to speak) runs you into trouble.

Only if you insist on the identical syntax as it has been until now. You
can cock something together something with here-docs. Implementation can
at least partly be based upon sprintf.

-- 
        Bart.

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