Larry Wall wrote:
I don't see that this buys us anything over just shortening "sprintf" to something shorter, like:
print as '%03d %15s', $foo, $bar;
And your argument list falls out naturally from making "as" a listop. Plus it naturally lets you say other "as-ly" things:
print as MyBigInt, $foo, $bar;
ooh. Nice. I like that.
-- Rod Adams
