package _XSprintf; use overload '""' => sub { shift->() }; package main; sub xsprintf { my $fmt =shift; my $bind=\@_; return bless sub { sprintf $fmt,@_ ? @_ : @$bind },'_XSprintf'; } my ($char,$ord,$bits)=('A'); my $diag=xsprintf("%s : %3d => '%8s'\n",$char,$ord,$bits); for ($char='A';length($char)==1;$char++) { $ord=ord $char; $bits=unpack 'B*',$char; print $diag; } __END__ A : 65 => '01000001' B : 66 => '01000010' C : 67 => '01000011' D : 68 => '01000100' E : 69 => '01000101' ...