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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:42:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y3zme28e.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1cG0XY-0002Zz-0r@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:35:28 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Is there a reason why people are writing (funcall '+ 3.42423 4)
> rather than (+ 3.42423 4)?

Yes.  It's a long form that everybody knows the meaning of, and that
looks awkward when you put it into a format string.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-11 18:42 UTC|newest]

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
2016-12-11 16:29             ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 18:42             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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