Re: Why doesn't % interpolate?

Historicly, BTW, note that the interpolation of scalars has been there since the beginning (I think), whereas interpolation of arrays is rather new (5.0 partialy, normalized somwhat in 5.6, thanks, toma).

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Re: Re: Why doesn't % interpolate? by bart (Canon) on Apr 19, 2003 at 21:22 UTC
I'm almost certain that interpolation of arrays was available in perl4. Hmm... it was. I just tested it with perl 4.036. See the first paragraph in this document describing traps when going from perl4 to perl5. @ now always interpolates an array in double-quotish strings. Note the word "always". It used to be so that perl4 only interpolated arrays where they existed before being used in a string.	[reply]