D rawkz! -- custom writefln formats

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 11:18 -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[…]
> What would *really* be nice is if we extended the current format
> specifiers to be able to deal with named parameters and custom
> modifiers, for example:
[…]

Isn't there a way of handling this with closure capture. Python, Groovy,
etc. handle all this with dynamic lookup. Scala, etc. handle it with
value capture.

(I haven't worked this through properly, it is just a quick reaction to
reading the code. I may therefore have missed the point.)

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Russel.
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