[Pdx-pm] subroutine calls CAN be string-interpolated!

[Ovid]

--- Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com> wrote:

> And you thought they had to be concatenated with that messy 
> quote-breaking " . thing($stuff) . " syntax.
> 
>   perl -e 'use constant foo => 7, 6; print "foo:  @{[foo]}\n";'
> 
> Is this undocumented or just obscure?
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/~Eric%20Wilhelm/journal/27926

I think it's pretty common.  Ugly, but common.  (At least, I've used it
a lot and I've seen it used a lot with my current and previous
employers).

Cheers,
Ovid

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