in reply to Dreaming of Post Interpolation

> interpolating single-quoted variables

Isn't this just a case of, in your dream-state, using single quotes where in reality you would have used double quotes?

Maybe I am not understanding the problem, but it seems like the sollution would either be reinventing single quotes, or eval 

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RE: Re: Dreaming of Post Interpolation
by BBQ (Curate) on May 30, 2000 at 06:51 UTC
    Yes, I guess the single-quote part was a bit of a slip-up on my part. There is no reason for the desired effect that I am looking for to be acheived exclusively with single-quotes. As a matter of fact, double-quotes would be even better since they represent (and do) interpolate.

    My mess-up was based on the fact that I wanted a string to be re-assigned when it doesn't do it automatically. The single-quote part was my goof, and a bit of an exageration. Now I can't find any good reason why they couldn't be double in the first place. Thanks for pointing that out. Its important.
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