[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus?

[Greg Ward]

[Greg Ewing]
> I suggest '^', since it does a nice job of suggesting
> "inject stuff into this string". We can have both a
> prefix form for compile-time interpolation:
>
>   a = ^ "My name is $name"
>
> and an infix form for run-time interpolation:
>
>   a = "My name is $name" ^ dict

[Barry]
> I think I suggested using ~ for this at IPC10:
> 
>     a = ~'my name is $name'
> 
> for the compile-time interpolation.  I don't think it matters much
> which operator is chosen (let Guido decide).

-1 on all line-noise string modifiers.  (I just looked at Barry's
example and part of my reptilian hindbrain thought it was a regex match.
Don't do that to Perl and awk refugees, please!)

All existing string modifiers are letters; how about "i" for
"interpolation":

   a = i"my name is $name"

Assuming of course that we really do need yet another flavour of
strings...

        Greg
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