Martin Norbäck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that i18n needs positional arguments. > What's wrong with simply doing like this: > > printf "I have %. %. %.." ["trained", show 1, "Jedi"] > printf "%2. %3. %1. I have." ["trained", show 1, "Jedi"]
Nothing is exceptionally wrong with it, except it's not as flexible. Since everything is show'n, how would you handle things like "%5.2f" or "%*d"? In Brian Huffman's version it's almost trivial to add. I know I can use formatDouble and whatnot, but the code looks cluttered this way. "C" printf has many pitfalls, but I like its terseness. -- anatoli __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
