Re: RFC: String interpolation

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

PE> Although that would work, it's an incompatible change to documented
PE> behavior. The manual currently says that excess arguments are ignored,
PE> which means that currently all three expressions have well-defined (and
PE> differing) behaviors.

PE> A few months ago I changed 'message' in an incompatible way, figuring that
PE> almost nobody would care. Boy, was I wrong! That being said, I agree that
PE> the above style is simpler and would be easy to implement, and I can do it
PE> that way if you prefer.

I see. Personally, I don't think we need to extend format at all. How many
others really want this extension?

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