Feb. 25, 2002
9:44 p.m.
"SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:
SM> I'm still not at all fond of the $-string idea, but in the SM> interests of completeness, perhaps using '$' as a binary SM> operator (by analogy with '%' as a binary operator having SM> nothing to do with modulo when the left arg is a string) would SM> be appropriate. I can't say whether it's a good thing to add this to the language or not. I tend to think that %(var)s is just fine from a Python programmer's point of view, and in the interest of TOOWTDI, we don't need anything else.