I'm not sure that follows. "is the same" for "${s}" & "@{a}" doesn't have to translate into "has to be the same" for "%{h}" does it? Perl has plenty on non-orthoganalities already.

The "sigil{bareword}" syntax is specifically intended to disambiguate those cases where "sigil\w+" would be mis-interpreted 

my $a = $year < 1999 ? 'pre-' :'post-';

print "In the context of ${a}millenium treatment of dates, $year becam
+e...";

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Are there any other cases that would need special treatment if "%h" was designated as being equivalent to "@{[ %h ]}" except when used with the format strings for (s)printf where it would be necessary to disambiguate it by using "%s %3d %{h}"? I can't think of any, can you?

In reply to Re: Re: Why doesn't % interpolate? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Why doesn't % interpolate? by diotalevi

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