4 Aug
2023
4 Aug
'23
5:54 a.m.
On 8/3/23 18:47, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 12:57:31PM -0400, Phil Budne
wrote:
Tell us how you
really feel :). But, I couldn't agree more. I worked
really hard to get printf and sprintf down and then folks started doing
it "right" and "better" or renaming it but watering it down - ugh! I
say, we picket.
On the subject of "no printf", there is
not one, not two, but THREE
ways to format strings, easily compounded with print:
print("%s %s" % ("hello", "world"))
print("{1} {two}".format("hello", two="world"))
print(f"{greeting} {populace}")
I'm pretty sure the last method (which initially made me vomit, due to
All of
those make me vomit. Pretty much every sane language has printf.