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, $bar;
: >
: >And your argument list falls out naturally from making "as" a li
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:26:51PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: You could easily write the above as
:
:say (($n1, $n2, $n3)».as('%d')).join;
:
: What I'm not certain about is if
:
:say ($n1, $n2, $n3)».as('%d').join;
:
: does the same thing, but I think it does.
Yes, hyper only modifies o
Matt Diephouse wrote:
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Besides, I think "as" will do just fine, especially since you can now
interpolate method calls as well. You can even do something like this
if you want to perform bulk formatting:
say join ' ', ($n1, $n2, $n3) >>.as('%
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Besides, I think "as" will do just fine, especially since you can now
> interpolate method calls as well. You can even do something like this
> if you want to perform bulk formatting:
>
> say join ' ', ($n1, $n2, $n3) >>.as('%d');
What ab
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:01:39AM +0100, Juerd wrote:
: It puts the variable name out front, which is great, but it also puts
: the second variable name a the way to the right, after the line
: noise.
print $foo.as('%03d'),
$bar.as('%15s');
Larry
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, $
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, $
Juerd wrote:
Rod Adams skribis 2005-03-12 17:41 (-0600):
Why not just rename C< sprintf > to C< format > and ditch printf and sayf?
Because format is almost as much typing as sprintf, and in many
circumstances needs both parens and quotes:
format("%03d %15s", $foo, $bar), $baz, ...
compa
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:58:50AM +0100, Juerd wrote:
: I'm really getting the feeling I'm the only one who uses sprintf because
: it *separates* and lets you write complex things on one simple line.
: That, and I use it a lot in one liners.
Then you should feel much better after you read my mess
Larry Wall skribis 2005-03-12 15:55 (-0800):
> Well, we do already have:
> print $foo.as('%03d'), $bar.as('%15s')
> which works on interpolated values as well. It als puts the variable
> name out front, since the name is more important than the pattern in
> most cases.
It puts the variable na
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon skribis 2005-03-12 15:51 (-0800):
> Besides, I think "as" will do just fine, especially since you can now
> interpolate method calls as well. You can even do something like this
> if you want to perform bulk formatting:
> say join ' ', ($n1, $n2, $n3) >>.as('%d');
> Or
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:57:39PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
: Without introduction, I'll just present the syntax idea:
:
: f/%03d %15s/$foo, $bar/;
:
: This gives s?printf to any expression with short and concise syntax,
: making printf redundant, which means I won't even have to start a
: discuss
Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Without introduction, I'll just present the syntax idea:
>
> f/%03d %15s/$foo, $bar/;
>
> Of course, this is s///-like in quoting behaviour, so f[][] or f"""
> should work just as well. The RHS is not a string, but parsed as an
> expression in list context.
Rod Adams skribis 2005-03-12 17:41 (-0600):
> Why not just rename C< sprintf > to C< format > and ditch printf and sayf?
Because format is almost as much typing as sprintf, and in many
circumstances needs both parens and quotes:
format("%03d %15s", $foo, $bar), $baz, ...
compared to
f/%
Juerd wrote:
Without introduction, I'll just present the syntax idea:
f/%03d %15s/$foo, $bar/;
This gives s?printf to any expression with short and concise syntax,
making printf redundant, which means I won't even have to start a
discussion about sayf :)
printf "%03d %15s", $foo, $bar;
vs
Without introduction, I'll just present the syntax idea:
f/%03d %15s/$foo, $bar/;
This gives s?printf to any expression with short and concise syntax,
making printf redundant, which means I won't even have to start a
discussion about sayf :)
printf "%03d %15s", $foo, $bar;
vs
print
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