On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Derek Chiang <derekchian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a newcomer to Rust. One of the things that I find confusing is the use
> of {} in formatted strings. In all other languages I've ever used, it's
> always %. So instead of writing "%d", you write "{:d}" in Rust. Why is
> this so? What benefits do we get?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
It's the syntax used by C# and modern Python:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.format(v=vs.110).aspx
http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#format-string-syntax
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