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in reply to Re: Changing the first word to uppercase
in thread Changing the first word to uppercase

What's the reason you chose s/.../uc($1)/e over s/.../\U$1/?

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Re^3: Changing the first word to uppercase
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 14, 2008 at 18:24 UTC
    I only thought of \U afterwards. I'm not a big fan of it either. Code shouldn't look like a string literal. And unlike interpolation, it's not something we are trained to look for.