On 5/9/11, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > One possibility is to provide a nice2ugly template that transforms C# > format strings into % format strings, e.g. nice2ugly!"{1}:{2}" yields > the string constant "%1$s:%2$s".
That is exactly what my echo function does. It replaces {} syntax with %$s syntax behind the scenes, and then forwards that to writef.