As Stefan said above, the problem with traditional (s)printf functions is type safety.
On Thursday, December 4, 2014 4:53:17 AM UTC+10, Mike Innes wrote: > > #9423 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/9243> should help with the > repetition of format strings issue. It occurs to me now that you can always > just write a function wrapper for `@sprintf` to solve that issue but this > might still be useful. > > [...]
