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Re: RFC: String interpolation


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:07:10 -0800
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On 12/13/2016 03:55 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
I don't think you'd want to rewrite that to

(message "The time is %d%" clock " in the %s%" part " bit of %s%" country)

Or would you?  (The final "%" is optional, of course.")

Apparently some people prefer this style -- it's what started the thread, after all.

A minor point: in the currently-proposed implementation, that final "%" is not allowed. It is easy to add support for it as a further (very small) extension.




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