Re: (format "Hello %1$S%2$s" 'world "!")

[Noam Postavsky]

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Clément Pit-Claudel
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2017-07-02 10:02, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> (I am using the numbered fields that Philipp Stephani implemented in June.)
>
> Hm, this patch went through?  I thought there were still disagreements about 
> the syntax.

There were some tweaks following the initial patch, but I don't recall
any major disagreements about syntax. I posted some relevant links in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12777#8

> Did we consider introducing a new formatting function (with a polyfill for 
> older Emacsen), rather than this %n$ syntax?

I don't recall anyone suggesting that. Why would we need a new
function since %n$ would be an error for the old format anyway?