> Actually this is pretty cool, add a = and turn it into a variable
> declaration:
>
> my format $FORMAT = <<'.';
> @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<, @<<<<<<<<<<<<
> $stuff, $junk
> .
>
> And that looks pretty similar to Perl 5. ;-)
Yah, but it's frought with the possibility of confusion. I can easily
see someone looking at your example, and then writing:
my format $INVOICELINE = <<".";
@<<<<< @<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<
$qty, $partid, $desc{$partid}, $price{$partid}, $qty*$$price{$partid}
.
and wondering why all their invoice lines were identical -- and
malformed!
> Anyways, I went ahead and RFC'ed the thing, we should take a look at it
> again when it posts. My goal was to make formats look 90% like Perl 5
> without requiring any special syntax, and it works pretty well, but it's
> definitely not a complete RFC yet.
>
> -Nate
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