Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it was addressing a problem at too low a level. This could be because I'm a > grouchy old-timer, and I carry over a Perl 5 design principle that says that > changes should be made in as general a way as possible.
It's a very good principle, I think. One (tiny) generalization I could think of was to pass everything between the \F and the funny character as an argument to a method call on the value. This method then stringifies the value. The default method just does sprintf or something similar. I see that it would probably be better to pass something like a general "stringification context" to the value, which could contain eg. language info. > Ziggy mentioned earlier today. I think all that needs to happen at this stage > is that we realise that a nicer way to do formatting in strings > would be good, I'm content if this will be revisited (hopefully by someone with better overview than mine). It just should not be ignored. > Unfortunately, it cuts both ways; this is the second post in a row you've > ended with an unnecessary barb. I know I'm no saint as far as that's > concerned, but I also know it doesn't necessary endear people to your point of > view. Look, no barb --> :) -Edwin
