Re: sobering observation, python vs. perl

[BartC]

On 17/03/2016 18:53, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC <b...@freeuk.com>:

sub replacewith{
    $s = $_[0];
    $t = $_[1];
    $u = $_[2];
    $s =~ s/$t/$u/;
    return $s;
}

Although once done, the original task now looks a proper language:

print (replacewith("I have a dream","have","had"));

Now try your function with:

    print (replacewith("I have a dream",".","had"));

Yeah, it needs your quotemeta line (whatever that does). But the call is 
unaffected as the clutter is in the function.

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bartc

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