Re: RFC: String interpolation

[Stefan Monnier]

>> "This is %(funcall '+ 3.42423 4).2f and "foo"s"
> If this wasn’t Emacs, I would name lack of localizability as a
> drawback of including code as part of strings.

Note that with if the macro internally uses just a single `format` call,
then the above gets macro-expanded into something like

    (format "This is %s and %ss" ...)

which is as amenable to localization as your typical printf.

> But that’s moot because no one writes localizable software in Elisp.

Sad but true.


        Stefan