Feb. 25, 2002
7:28 p.m.
"MAL" == M <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
MAL> Whatever you do, just please don't mix the old and new MAL> semantics... MAL> 'Joe has $ %(a)5.2f in his pocket.' % locals() MAL> is perfectly valid now and should continue to be valid. I agree completely; it ought to be one or the other. In the code I emailed, you actually had to do a conversion step from $-strings to %-strings to use the build-in string-mod operator. In practice, if $-strings were to be added to the language, I suspect some new prefix would have to designate a new type of string object, e.g. $'' strings. Or perhaps a different binary operator could be used. -Barry