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[Gaal Yahas]

[Replying to Shlomi's post although probably he knows this already.]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:01:45PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 23:10, Sagiv Barhoom wrote:
> > Gabor, could you  please explain why ${10} is better then $10?
> 
> Well, generally, in Perl one can use the ${ ... } notation to signify when the 
> name of the variable inside the interpolation ends. So if for example I want 
> to have something like :
> 
> 	$myvar . "hello" . $q . "Sagiv"
> 
> I can write it as:
> 
> 	"${myvar}hello${q}Sagiv"
> 
> Whereas:
> 
> 	"$myvarhello$qSagiv"
> 
> Will be interpreted as the variable $myvarhello followed by $qSagiv.

Perl 6 has {} as a general introducer of closure interpolation, so this is
even clearer there:

  "{ $myvar }hello{ $q }Sagiv"

The spaces are optional, and the nice thing is that you can put any
expression there. So this works too:

  "I think I need { what_I_need($now) + $spare } of them."

In Perl 5 there's the @{[]} syntax to do something similar but that is
significantly more ugly, and has subtle context issues, too.

-- 
Gaal Yahas <gaal at forum2.org>
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