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: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:01:17 -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 1481735750 28972 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2016 17:15:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:15:50 +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 Wed Dec 14 18:15:44 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 1cHD9c-0006TI-D4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:15:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHD9f-0000tY-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57993) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHCvq-00010X-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHCvq-00064R-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:01:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cHCve-00060V-Kf; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cHCvd-0005oa-UF; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:01:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:43:34 +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:210461 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. ]]] > > Perhaps I misunderstood that proposal. Would %{thing} by itself be > > valid? > No. That means I made a mistake. It's not ambiguous, but it is rather ugly to put the format spec after the interpolated value. The syntax with square-brackets before the interpolated value is cleaner. -- 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.