Having it \1 etc replaced before evaluation flys in the face of all logical evaluation order, i mean its a parameter thats passed to the procedure, you could always markup the output so the \1 etc return values were easy to identify, placing some type of tags infront and behind etc.
- So? $findfile() and $finddir() do it already. If someone wants to evaluate identifiers beforehand they can use evaluation brackets. Using 'markup' is very fiddly.
