14 Jan
2009
14 Jan
'09
7:05 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:59 -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2009 Jan 14, at 10:26, Neil Mitchell wrote:
As an example: foo = u"abc\N{VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF}"
Hmm, looks nice, and sensible. But as soon as you've got \N{....} syntax I want:
"foo\E{show i}bar"
i.e. embed expressions in strings. I think this would be fantastic.
why not simpy "foo\E{i}bar" ?
What if i is a string? You'd get: foo"i"bar
Having different behaviour for string vs everything else would be equally bad.
...except that show already *has* different behavior for String vs. everything else.
Technically, showList has different behavior for Char vs. everything else. And not necessarily for *everything* else. And that's very well *not* what he meant. jcc