From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:35:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1cG0XY-0002Zz-0r@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76c9c475-0180-aa49-3d4a-006d4e3f943c@gmail.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Sat, 10 Dec 2016 10:49:59 -0500)
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> I don't know: Python has had it for a while, no one uses it, and they are now introducing interpolation…
> > (with-format ((zot "foo")
> > (thing (funcall '+ 3.42423 4)))
> > "This is %{thing}.2f and %{zot}ss")
> This looks fine too, but the repetition bothers me (I don't really see what benefit there is to naming all arguments). So I still find
> "This is %(funcall '+ 3.42423 4).2f and "foo"s"
> more readable.
Is there a reason why people are writing (funcall '+ 3.42423 4)
rather than (+ 3.42423 4)?
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Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-08 1:13 RFC: String interpolation Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-08 8:38 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 9:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-08 18:25 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 9:02 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-08 18:22 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 14:43 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 18:37 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-09 8:57 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-08 18:21 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 20:38 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<E1cF5SK-0000HO-EL@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-12-08 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-08 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-08 19:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-10 16:01 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-09 19:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-09 22:45 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 2:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-11 18:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 18:56 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 19:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 17:53 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 14:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-10 14:25 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-10 15:49 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 16:01 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-10 17:58 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 19:31 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-11 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 9:35 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-12-11 16:29 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 18:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-11 18:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 21:05 ` Helmut Eller
2016-12-11 21:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 9:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 17:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 13:40 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-12 14:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 14:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-12 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 17:46 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-12 18:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 19:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-12 20:41 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-12 23:40 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 17:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 18:05 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 23:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 0:07 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 0:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-14 0:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 0:17 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 0:26 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-14 1:48 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 2:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-14 3:33 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 3:52 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-14 13:52 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-12-14 13:57 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-12-14 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 0:21 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-14 14:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-12 19:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-12 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-13 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 17:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 17:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 1:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-12 16:39 ` Helmut Eller
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