On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:17:31PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
> > This reminds me of a related but rather opposite desire I have had
> > more than once: a quotish context that would be otherwise like q() but
> > with some minimal extra typing I could mark a scalar or an array to be
> > expanded as in qq(). For example doubling the $ and @? $$foo, @@bar?
> > This comes in handy when you are generating big blocks of code on the
> > fly but only tiny parts of it needs to be interpolated. Unfortunately
> > the margin of my monitor is not enough to describe this wonderful idea
> > in a form of a RFC.
>
>
> $qqdString =~ s/\[(\w+)\]/defined($vars{$1})?$vars{$1}:"[$1]"/ge;
I'm sorry but that didn't quite make my heart leap with joy :-)
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