I used to be happy with printf(), but after using PHP for a while I've just installed MJD's Interpolation module so I can painlessly mix Perl with my big wodges of HTML.
--Nat
I really like its "%(key)s" for autmagically pulling values from a dictionary with the Python version of printf (%). Maybe 6's printf could do that with a hash ref.
You know, that wouldn't be too hard to overload in the current perl either. Hrmmm.
