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 something like printf "#.3f " x @nums, @nums; and @nums is empty. You could always scan the format for a %-specifier which was valid under the old rules and warn that they seem to be using retro syntax. # bespeaks a number-type of thing... how about ~ ? -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies