Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I don't much like the $"" prefix
This was discussed during the last round of formatting
wars, and the conclusion was that having $ both
inside and outside the string would be too visually
confusing.
> I don't see a good
> way to marry the rich coercion of %-substitution with the simplicity of
> $-substition.
If I were designing a formatting system from scratch,
I think I'd separate the issue of formatting numbers into
strings from the issue of inserting strings into other
strings. So instead of
"Answer no. %5d is %8.3f" % (n, x)
you would say something like
subst("Answer no. {1} is {2}", format(i, 'd', 5), format(x, 'f', 8, 3))
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