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in reply to Re^3: transliteration d flag not working as expected
in thread transliteration d flag not working as expected

What I had in mind was that  s/// would be messier/slower if interpolation was unnecessary, as the OPed problem statement seemed to indicate. I agree that if interpolation becomes necessary,  s/// is almost certainly preferable to an eval approach.