Re: Perl-like strings...?

[askok@...]

Passing the local variables as a kind-of identity matrix 
is not too bad:

local me= "asko"
local age= 36

print( "My name is $me and my age is $age."     % { me=me, 
age=age } )

print( "My name is ${me} and my age is ${age}."     % { 
me=me, age=age } )


Global values can be pointed to like such (unless the % 
operator wants to default fall-back to them):

print( "This is a global value: ${print}" % _G )





On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:52:27 -0400
 John Belmonte <john@neggie.net> wrote:
> askok@dnainternet.net wrote:
> > Perl has a STRONG ease in the output of things, by 
> > allowing variables to
> > be included in the string itself. This not only is 
> > shorter, but most of
> > all much more readable than a lot of ..'s. Could be 
> > introduced in Lua as
> > syntax sugar, using """ and [[[ operations.
>
> ... or this can be solved without changing Lua.  (By the 
> way, I believe
> Perl also allows function calls and arbitrary 
> expressions inside
> strings, which you do not address.)
>
>  http://lua-users.org/wiki/TextTemplate
>  http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringInterpolation
>
> --John