Re: Naming the @{[]} operator

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:29:38 -0400, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:

>On 7/7/06, Jerrad Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> perl -le 'print "@{[time]}"'
>
>What the advantage the above over this:
>
>perl -le 'print time'

Oh come on, you asked how to use @{[]}. Well, its main purpose is a way
to embed ("interpolate") a function call into a string. Like, uh, 

	perl -le 'print "<<<@{[time]}>>>"'

If I need to do this often in one script, I prefer to load the module
Interpolate.

-- 
	Bart.