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Postings from March 2000
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:15:43 +0000 mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.J.T. Guy) wrote: * Saving two quote characters doesn't seem like a big deal. Or perhaps * you want to invent SQL-requests-as-objects? Well, yes, first you could (in theory) make interpolation context-sensitive. Again: @result = qs/select @cols from $table where $col = $val/ Here, @cols needs to be ,-separated, $table and $col need one kind of interpolation, and $val needs another. It's certainly not unreasonable to assume that a future qs// could be smart enough to recognize this much SQL. As to the second, you could certainly have: $sqlref = qs/blah blah blah ? blah ? blah/; # return ref in scalar @result = $sqlref->execute(@args); You p5p-ers may or may not understand the significance and popularity of SQL and Perl but from my contact with the real world, it's headed toward "huge." A few syntactical nods in its direction will likely make Perl many new friends a year or two down the road. Frankly I think it would be good to reserve the entire qc (where c is some lowercase alpha) namespace and quote-op syntax. -joseph