Hi Eric, I'm don't know much about (G)JS, but did you saw the underscore in front of your example string? Maybe gettext does some magic here.
Greetings, Christoph Am Sonntag, den 21.08.2016, 11:26 +0200 schrieb elbenfreund: > Hello list, > > while browsing some of the existing GNOME-Shell extensions source [1] > noticed string formating similiar to C or python: > ``'some_random_string'.format()``. > I'm not really that familiar with JS but by all accounts ([2], [3], > [4]) > javascript does not have build in string formating. > So my question is, is there some additional magic happening when JS > is > parsed for extensions? Why does this work? Did I miss something? > > Thank you for your time > Eric. > > [1] > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions/tree/extensions/d > rive-menu/extension.js#n106 > [2] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610406/javascript-equivalent-to-pr > intf-string-format > [3] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18405736/is-there-a-c-sharp-string > -format-equivalent-in-javascript > [4] > https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Text_forma > tting > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list -- Visit me: https://twitter.com/criztovyl https://criztovyl.joinout.de https://github.com/criztovyl
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