5 Aug
2023
5 Aug
'23
7:40 a.m.
Thanks Larry. I've found printf a jump in usability among the
languages I've used (FORTRAN, Visual Basic, Java, PHP and a few more).
Python3's
f-strings are a major readability/suportability advance over printf. There
is nothing I know of as usable, readable, and supportable.
I have yet to find anything I can't do
with f-strings than I could with printf.
There must be some one who has pros and cons of f-strings on this list?
I would like to hear thoughts.
Ed
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 2:47 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
We did something sort of like that in Little, all
double quoted strings
look for ${anything} in the string and evaluates it and prints. Like
fstrings, you can do puts("Print 5 + 7 = ${5 + 7}");
We used single quoted strings as pure strings.
It's handy and sometimes more readable than printf.
http://www.little-lang.org/little.html#String_interpolation
On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 02:20:06PM -0500, Ed Bradford wrote:
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To all:
Python 3's fstrings
https://realpython.com/python-f-strings/
seem to me to be a huge improvement over printf
and its close relatives.
What are people's views about the pro's and con's and
how do print and strings compare in usability?
Ed
On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 9:07???PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
> IMO (Like Larry) no printf stinks. But the real killer for my sustain
for
> Python is the use white space and being
typeless. My daughter loves
it
> for her cloud development and we argue a
bit. But it was the first
> language she really mastered in college and she never took a
competitive
> languages course so I???m not so sure really
had experienced much
beyond it
> for real programs. Maybe I???m just an old
fart but between C, Go
and Rust
> I???m pretty good. I do write scripts in
Bourne shell and or awk
truth be
> known.
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 8:51 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 07:49:18PM -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
>> > > [Python is] meant for mainly functional programming as I
understand it
>> >
>> > Not true. It has some neat functional features (list
comprehensions)
but
>> > that's not really its intent.
>>
>> I've really tried to like python but any language that doesn't has
printf
>> as builtin is not for me. Yes, I know
about their library printf but
it
is weird.
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