bearophile: > But how many times do you want to ignore some of the > arguments listed?
I do a lot. The way I do it is the arguments are made available to the format, but it doesn't always need them at runtime. string f = showNames ? "%1$s\t%2$d" : "%2$d"; writefln(f, name, number); Though I don't literally use writefln for most my code the same idea applies.
