On 02/26/2012 10:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Eli Bendersky<eli...@gmail.com> wrote:
It would be nice to call it something else than "printf-style
formatting". While it is certainly modelled on printf(), knowledge of C
or printf is not required to understand %-style formatting, nor even to
appreciate it.
+1. The section is already titled "old string formatting operations" so if
this name is acceptable it should be reused. If it's not, it should then be
consistently changed everywhere.
I deliberately chose printf-style as being value neutral (whereas
old-style vs new-style carries a heavier recommendation that you
should be using the new one). Sure you don't need to know printf to
understand it, but it needs *some* kind of name, and "printf-style"
acknowledges its roots. Another value-neutral term is "mod-style",
which describes how it is invoked (and I believe we do use that in a
few places already).
I've seen "percent-formatting", which is neutral, accurate and doesn't
require any previous knowledge. (The new one could be "format-formatting"
then, which is a tad awkward. :)
Georg
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