On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 05:12:30PM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: : 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>.
That would be up to Damian. :-) : print as Form :interleave <<'.' I don't think that can be valid syntax--too many nouns in a row, and if you take :interleave as an adverb, it'd have to apply to "as" rather than than "Form". Here docs are now q:here<.> or q:till<.> or some such, by the way. So maybe we just let Damian define q:f:to/./ or some such, except that we already make :f mean something, I expect. Larry
