Poll on improved format strings.

[Derek Parnell]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:53:48 -0500, renoX wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've made a templated format string templates 

...

> I'd like some inputs to see if there is a majority in favour of one style or the other..

I will not be using this style of string formatting. 

I like to have the format strings as something that the user supplies at
runtime so that they can control the output of messages to their users -
especially when considering multiple language support. 

  msg = Expand( getMsgLayout( msgno ), vars ...);
  Output (msg );

where the msgno is a key to a runtime lookup for the layout of the message
which is suitable for the langugage of the current user.

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