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@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:
> 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@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@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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> >>
> > --
> > Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
> >
>
>
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