Re: RFC: String interpolation

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Dec 08 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Dez 08 2016, Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
> > Many languages are gaining literal string interpolations 
> > features of late (the latest example is Python; see 
> > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/).  The TL;DR is that 
> > in Python 3.6 one can write this:
> >
> >     value = 1.3
> >     print(f'The value is {value + 1:.2f}.')
> >
> > This prints "The value is 2.30."  Plenty of other languages 
> > have similar features.
> >
> > It would be nice if Emacs offered something similar out of the 
> > box.
>
> (format "The value is %.2f." (1+ value))

Well, yes, but if you have a longish string and more than 
two-three values to fill, it can be difficult to see what value 
goes where and what the resulting string will look like.

It may not be a must-have, but it's certainly a nice-to-have, 
IMvHO.



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Joost Kremers
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