Why is std.string.format a c-style variadic function?

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 27.09.2011 4:43, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 11:15 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 9/26/11, Ellery Newcomer<ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu>  wrote:
>>> std.metastrings.Format wouldn't be what you want, would it?
>>>
>>
>> Yep it is, Jonathan mentioned it above.
>
> thunderbird hates me. second time I give an answer made redundant by
> orphaned subthread.
>
FWIW I'm on thunderbird, and all is fine here.

> I'll counter by giving random unsolicited thoughts on Format:
>
> don't use it for codegen (or any long format strings, I suppose). dmd
> chokes on it very quickly.
>
> format specifiers could use positional parameters or something. Last
> summer I actually wrote a Replace template to scratch that itch. dmd
> choked on it pretty quickly too.


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Dmitry Olshansky