Oct. 3, 2009
1:29 a.m.
Has anyone considered the idea of having the string % operator behave intelligently according to the contents of the format string? If it contains one or more valid %-formats, use old-style formatting; if it contains one or more valid {}-formats, use new-style formatting. Ambiguous cases could arise, of course, but hopefully they will be fairly rare, and raising an exception would point out the problem and allow it to be fixed. -- Greg