Christian Tanzer wrote:
[snip...]
IMHO, either the translation is done once and gives identical output or
it isn't worth doing at all.
I disagree. I doubt even 0.001% of all format strings involve octal
formatting. Is it really worth not providing a transition path if it
can't cover this case?
If %-formatting is first deprecated then removed from Python and there
is no automatic transition path that effectively means that existing
code using %-formatting is forced to stay at whatever Python version
was the last one supporting %-formatting.
I surely hope nobody is seriously considering such a scenario. Perl 6
seems harmless in comparison.
That is vastly overstating it. Making 'with' and 'as' keywords and
removing string exceptions (which have already happened) will affect far
more programs than a minor incompatibility in transitioning string
formatting.
Michael
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