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- Subject: Re: printf is a crappy language in a crappy language (was Re: [OT] Lua community and Go language)
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:18:24 +0200
2013/8/13 Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com>:
> What time.Format and printf/scanf have in common is that they use
> raw strings as little languages compiled and evaluated at runtime.
...
> I don't know about you, but in this case I think expressing structure
> as structs seems a lot more painful than just chucking everything into
> a string.
>From the title, I thought you were inveighing _against_ printf/scanf.
>From the message itself, it seems you nevertheless regard them as the
lesser evil.
Or am I misunderstanding you totally?
