On 6/27/13, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote: > NO! This is exactly the kind of code that is buggy and useless. The > right use cases involve more arguments than format specifiers. I mistyped that, I meant: format("%s", 1, 2); // no exceptions in future release safeFormat("%s", 1, 2); // exception thrown