Re: New Perl Quiz of the Week mailing list perl-qotw

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:14:49PM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote:
>
> It may be too soon to start golfing this, but a more normal
> interpretation of (-ugene's brilliancy is something like:
> 
> sub subst{join'',map--$|?$_:eval,split/(\$\d+)/,$_[$|=0]}
> 
> if you allow the subroutine to mangle $| (admittedly dubious).
> Can anyone do better?
> 

Anything wrong with:

sub subst{eval"\"$_[0]\""}  

or is that too easy?

Geoff.