Why Perl Didn't Win

Re:Why Perl Didn't Win by andybak on Sunday January 18, 2015 @09:59AM (#8907660)

I'd recommend:

    '{} {}'.format('hello', 'world')

But yes - either way - it solves the need to do str() when concatenating.

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Re:Why Perl Didn't Win by andreasvc on Sunday January 18, 2015 @12:08PM (#8907998)

I never understood the need for the new style of formatting, or the advantage. Fortunately % formatting is no longer getting deprecated.

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Re:Why Perl Didn't Win by pyre on Monday January 19, 2015 @08:03AM (#8911696)

The only downside that I've come across is when you do something like:

  "%s %s" % blah

If a bug causes `blah` to be a string (rather than a tuple or a list), it will attempt to expand the string, possibly giving a confusing error.

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