> I'm not wedded to the precise C conventions.

Yes, the discussions with aatch, dbaupp, kimundi etc. were discussing possible 
options for the format syntax.

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-May/003999.html

~Brendan

On 16/07/2013, at 12:00 AM, Niko Matsakis <n...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 03:51:25PM +1000, Brendan Zabarauskas wrote:
>> I'm a fan of sticking with the fmt! style - it separates the data
>> from the representation as opposed to mixing the two. But maybe I'm
>> just an old fuddy-duddy.
> 
> +1 for format strings, though I'm not wedded to the precise C
> conventions.
> 
> I particularly dislike intermixing expressions and the string.
> I often have things like this:
> 
>     debug!(fmt!("Entering %s: foo=%s bar=%s",
>                 some_long_expression.id.to_str(),
>                 foo.repr(tcx, ...),
>                 ...));
> 
> When expressions get long, it's very ugly for them to be mixed
> in with the string.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Niko
> 

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