On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "BL" == Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> BL> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:57:07 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >> how often will you need to interpolate a hash?
>
> BL> A whole hash: quite rarely. A hash item: a LOT. Don
> "a" == abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
a> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>>
>> good point. $() can still wrap that but then there has to be a balance
>> between printf strings and double quoters. how about this wacky idea:
>>
>> make a new ty
Uri Guttman:
# i disagree. but we shall see if larry is listening to this thread and
# will back away from hash interpolation or take some of our suggestions
# that make it work without killing format strings. i hate to see a
# special call or wierd syntax for that. my qn (or qf)
# suggestion seem
Abigail:
# I'd think it would be much better that '%' followed by a word *not*
# followed by a { isn't interpolated. Granted, you cannot do
# interpolation
# of hashes (well, one could always write "@{[%hash]}", just
# like in perl5,
# and there's little change of clashing with printf formats.
# T
> "BD" == Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BD> I think qn counts as weird syntax. I ask again, what's wrong with one
BD> of:
BD> sprintf("%hash\%s", $string);
BD> sprintf(%hash.'%s', $string);
BD> sprintf('%s%s', _%hash, $string);
what if you want to use %hash{width}
Uri Guttman:
# > "BD" == Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
#
# BD> I think qn counts as weird syntax. I ask again, what's
# wrong with one
# BD> of:
#
# BD> sprintf("%hash\%s", $string);
#
# BD> sprintf(%hash.'%s', $string);
# BD> sprintf('%s%s', _%hash,
Why not replace the escape character '%' with '#'? No new quoting
operators or functions to learn. And introduce a warning if there are
no #'s in the format string.
Eugene
> "BD" == Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BD> Uri Guttman:
BD> # $prec = %hash{width} ;
BD> # sprintf( qf"%${prec}s", $string);
BD> #
BD> # sprintf( "\%${prec}s", $string);
BD> #
BD> # is one of your alternatives. :-/
BD> You forgot one.
BD> sprintf('%'_%hash{width
At 01:39 AM 3/11/02 +0100, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
>Why not replace the escape character '%' with '#'? No new quoting
>operators or functions to learn.
Beat me to it.
>And introduce a warning if there are
>no #'s in the format string.
Maybe if it's a constant, but not if you're doing someth
> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> At 01:39 AM 3/11/02 +0100, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
>> Why not replace the escape character '%' with '#'? No new quoting
>> operators or functions to learn.
PS> Beat me to it.
>> And introduce a warning if there are
>> no
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