Aug. 4, 2015
11:59 p.m.
On Aug 4, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Eric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com> wrote:
On 8/4/2015 4:52 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: (Though honestly the whole look of f-strings hasn't quite grown on me. I wish I could turn back the clock and make expression substitution a feature of all string literals, perhaps using \{...}, which IIRC I've seen in some other language.)
Well, we could do that with a future statement. It might be tough to ever make it the default, though.
By which I meant __future__ import.
But since it would only be literals, it's easy enough to find.
By which I meant the affected literals would be easy to find and mechanically convert. Sorry for the inexact wording. Eric.