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Cl=C3=A9ment Pit--Claudel <clement.pit@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2016-12-12 04:44, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>   (fmt "This is %{thing}.2f"
>>        :thing (replace-regexp-in-string " +" " " thing))
>>=20
>> This sucks slightly less, in my opinion.
>
> How so? (this is a sincere question)

Sorry, I thought all the paragraphs above that one explained why I
thought it sucked slightly less?  :-)

You don't introduce any new variables, alter any variables, or alter the
format statement.  I think that's less suckitude.

--=20
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