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From:
sthoenna
Date:
March 10, 2002 13:26
Subject:
Re: rethinking printf
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In article <200203101957.OAA17842@home.sysarch.com.>,
Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com> wrote:
>i disagree. but we shall see if larry is listening to this thread and
>will back away from hash interpolation or take some of our suggestions
>that make it work without killing format strings. i hate to see a
>special call or wierd syntax for that. my qn (or qf) suggestion seems to
>have some backing and it is clean and unobtrusive.
If you are going to make a special q form for sprintf strings, don't
make it just skip hash interpolation. Make it treat [@$%] all as
literals and only process backslashed thingies (including \qq of
course). If you want to interpolate a $foo in an printf format, use
%s.
The idea of interpolating %foo{bar} but not %foo seems unnecessarily
complicating.
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