Re^5: How can we interpolate an expression??


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Re^5: How can we interpolate an expression??

by Kenosis (Priest)

on Sep 21, 2012 at 02:46 UTC ( #994800=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Excellent, tobyink! I enjoy what it says there:

Discovered by Larry Wall, 1994.

It's the Discovered part that's intriguing...

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Re^6: How can we interpolate an expression??
by tobyink (Abbot) on Sep 21, 2012 at 05:49 UTC

A number of Perl's "features" are actually bugs that were discovered, found to be useful and have been documented and carefully preserved. One that springs to mind is that s/.../.../ee evaluates twice, s/.../.../eee evaluates thrice, etc.

I have a feeling that the baby cart is one of these.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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