From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:41:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <51825111-ace4-f750-4077-026a3b648d27@gmail.com> <8737hwnc52.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8c117f5c-209a-97d8-79ce-a78f707f0545@gmail.com> <76c9c475-0180-aa49-3d4a-006d4e3f943c@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481650947 8905 195.159.176.226 (13 Dec 2016 17:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 18:42:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGr5r-0001P2-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:42:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGr5t-0003mJ-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGr5o-0003mE-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGr5n-00016m-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGr5U-0000zt-JY; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cGr5T-0000sE-8B; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:41:59 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:11:23 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210407 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I mean, %{thing}.2f isn't a valid formatting directive today, so I'm > afraid I don't quite see the ambiguity. Perhaps I misunderstood that proposal. Would %{thing} by itself be valid? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.