Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data.

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From: Mike Stok
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 12:27

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In article <id.O6NE1.U_5@nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:

>Um, OK, except my example used a quoted brace-bracketed string with variable
>interpolation deferred until a later point. Can you do deferred variable
>interpolation in Perl?

I thought that one of the features of perl was that it did *one* level of 
vaiable interpolation, and if I need to achieve the same results as 
deferred interpolation I'd have to be explicit and use an eval or an 
s///ge or some other construct.  Langauge features are not inherently 
good or bad, to me this lack doesn't seem too painful but other people 
might miss it...  good job that there are lots of languages to chose from 
:-)

Of course, I could be entirely wrong...

Mike
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