Re: RFC: String interpolation

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> fmt expands the strings at compile time (so they must be constant
>>> strings).
>> I've occasionally appreciated the fact that I can pass a dynamically
>> created format string to `format'... ;-) Ok, I could always use
>> `format' in such cases.
> Yes; otherwise, fmt becomes a thinly veiled eval, and that isn't great.

Not only that, but if it's a function it doesn't have access to the
variables in the lexical scope of the caller.


        Stefan