Martin (>): > 5. And pretty please could we have infix:<%>(Str,Capture) as an alias for > sprintf? (Not that I'm normally a Python fan, but that feature has a > particularly wholesome appeal about it.)
There's no problem adding this to either your user code or to CORE today. All the prerequisites are there. But I doubt it'll end up in CORE, and here's why: * We have sprintf and .fmt already, and they cover that ecological niche. * More importantly, infix:<%> is taken already in mainline Perl 6, by a mathematical operator, no less. Perl operators in general and Perl 6 operators in particular have been about not mixing meanings of operators, and if it's a math operator it cannot also be a string formatting one -- for pretty strong philosophical reasons. But, again, there's nothing to prevent you from defining a multi infix:<%> in your code today, or even package it in a module and make it re-usable. // Carl
