| August 1999 | Return to the Perl Hardware Store | Slide #25 |
An alternative to Interpolation is syntactic sugar.
Example: You have a data structure you want to print out, say
$struct = [AND, [OR, [ATOM, 'x'], [ATOM, 'y']],
[NOT, [ATOM, 'z']]]
You'd like this to print out as (x|y)&(~z).
Interpolation only works on strings.
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