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On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Cl=C3=A9ment Pit--Claudel
<clement.pit@gmail.com> wrote:

>> (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 wh=
at benefit there is to naming all arguments).  So I still find
>
>   "This is %(funcall '+ 3.42423 4).2f and "foo"s"
>
> more readable.

If this wasn=E2=80=99t Emacs, I would name lack of localizability as a
drawback of including code as part of strings. But that=E2=80=99s moot beca=
use
no one writes localizable software in Elisp.