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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19783030/in-julia-why-is-printf-a-macro-instead-of-a-function https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/7Sn5yys0UJE etc On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 6:38:09 PM UTC+1, Júlio Hoffimann wrote: > > Hi, > > Could you please explain why this works: > > @sprintf("foo%02i", 3) > > but this doesn't: > > s = string("foo","%02i") > @sprintf(s, 3) > > How is a formatted string different than an usual string? > > -Júlio >
