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Re: RFC: String interpolation


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:04:17 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:41:38 -0800 Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote: 

PE> I'm not sure what is meant mean by 'only works in one function'. 
format-message
PE> should behave like 'format', and any function that calls 'format' or
PE> 'format-message' will get the extended behavior for free. For example, 
(message
PE> ...) would get the extended behavior.

I mean that if any string could use that syntax at the expression reader
level, it would be essentially a new macro syntax that can make strings
anywhere. I think that's more useful to more people than just `format'
and friends. Maybe #["format" "parameters" "here"] or something like that.

Ted




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