Hello, My biggest pet-peeve in Julia is that @sprintf is a macro and not a function. That makes it very annoying to use at times because I cannot put a format string in a variable, or make a wrapper `printf()` function. I don't understand why this is an issue, since several other languages have a printf() function.
Is there any chance that I might see a printf() function in Julia in the future? I should clarify that I am aware of the "Formatting" module. I do not want to use Python-style formatting strings. I don't like them, I think they are confusing, and other languages that I use have traditional C-style printf() functions, so I want to stick to those. I realize that the "Formatting" module has one function called "sprintf1()" but that function only accepts one parameter, so it is not especially useful. Cheers, Daniel.
