Larry Wall skribis 2005-03-12 15:55 (-0800):
> Well, we do already have:
> print $foo.as('%03d'), $bar.as('%15s')
> which works on interpolated values as well. It als puts the variable
> name out front, since the name is more important than the pattern in
> most cases.
It puts the variable name out front, which is great, but it also puts
the second variable name allll the way to the right, after the line
noise.
> I don't see that this buys us anything over just shortening "sprintf"
> to something shorter, like:
> print as '%03d %15s', $foo, $bar;
I like it, although in more complex lists, it still requires the parens
that I so like to avoid. I could certainly live with a list op as short
as 'as', though!
Juerd
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