Pre-PEP: Refusing to guess in string formatting operations

[Patrick Vrijlandt]

"Beni Cherniavsky" <cben at techunix.technion.ac.il> schreef in bericht
news:mailman.1047411920.14927.python-list at python.org...
> Here is something I cooked a week ago but managed to post only now
> because it was buried in a damaged disk :-).  Please comment on it.

I would like to submit this thought:
The string formatting operator % can be replaced by
/ for a single right operand ('shortcut') and
// for a tuple right operand

Advantages:
Immediately all code can be made explict
Depreciation of % can  be done at any pace

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Patrick Vrijlandt