Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i hate to see a > special call or wierd syntax for that. my qn (or qf) suggestion seems > to have some backing and it is clean and unobtrusive.
Your qn() suggestions seems weird itself. It's too strange to have a special quoting method that allows interpolation of all variables except hash elements. It seems to me that the printf() problem could be solved by a somewhat less bizarre suggestion -- a quoting method that interprets backslash sequences but doesn't interpolate any variables. That would also help for strings that contain newlines or tabs along with dollar amounts or e-mail addresses. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC
