On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:00:44PM -0500, Paul Svensson wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Oren Tirosh wrote: > > >One advantage of using an operator, method or function over in-line > >formatting is that it enables the use of a template. A new string method > >can provide run-time evaluation of the same format: > > > > "\(a) + \(b) = \(a+b)\n" > > r"\(a) + \(b) = \(a+b)\n".cook() > > > >A raw string is used to defer the evaluation of all backslash escape > >sequences to some later time. The cook method evaluates backslash > >escapes in the string, including any embedded expressions. This runtime > >version may be used for internationalization, for example. > > Why not call this method "eval", so we all will know to treat it with care ? If cook() is limited to variable names it will be pretty safe and no special care should be necessary. In that case the example above wouldn't work, though, because it contains (a+b). It will need to use cook_eval(). Since what it does is the opposite of "raw" I just had to call it "cook"! Oren
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