Re: A possible solution for s?pintf

[Dave Whipp]

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;
This seems to have some overlap with the "form" listop in E7. Do we need 
both, or will we make c<Form> a possible 1st arg to C<<as>. Eg, 
(modified from the first E7 example):

    sub myster_rite {
        our ($name, $age, $ID, $comments);
        print as Form :interleave <<'.'
             ===================================
            | NAME     |    AGE     | ID NUMBER |
            |----------+------------+-----------|
            | {<<<<<<} | {||||||||} | {>>>>>>>} |
            |===================================|
            | COMMENTS                          |
            |-----------------------------------|
            | {[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[} |
             ===================================
            .
              $name,     $age,        $ID,
              $comments;
    }