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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Metalanguages in environments where code is data.
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In article <39uaqf$3b2@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
> :> 	runoff qq{
> :               ^^--- could you explain this?

> That's a variable-interpolated, brace-balanced string, just like a double
> quote.  So it's like "foo $bar stuff" except your braces can nest (and you
> may use any sort of brace: curly, square, round, or angle).

Um, OK, except my example used a quoted brace-bracketed string with variable
interpolation deferred until a later point. Can you do deferred variable
interpolation in Perl?
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