Re: printf is a crappy language in a crappy language (was Re: [OT] Lua community and Go language)

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:23 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> But gentlemen, I fear we are drifting off topic, unless someone can
> pull in Lua really quickly.

Here's the C#-style in Lua, without error checking and starting at 1

function tr (fmt,...)
    local args = {...}
    fmt = localize(fmt)
    return (fmt:gsub('{(%d+)}',function(idx)
        idx = tonumber(idx)
        local arg = args[idx]
        return tostring(arg)
    end))
end