Re: RFC: String interpolation

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

PE> Apparently some people prefer this style -- it's what started the thread,
PE> after all.

What if we did something a little more implicit:

For a format string, the number of occurrences % in that string determines how
many arguments it "consumes". Once that many arguments have been consumed, the
process restarts.

This way you could just say:

    (format "This %d" 10 " and this %d" 20)

Or:

    (format "This %d and %d" 10 20 " and this %d" 30)

Or:

    (format "This %d and %d and %d" 10 20 30)

Then there is no reason to assign a special meaning to "%" at the end of a
format string.

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