Re: RFC: String interpolation

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Perhaps I misunderstood that proposal.  Would %{thing} by itself be
  > > valid?

  > No.

That means I made a mistake.  It's not ambiguous, but it is rather
ugly to put the format spec after the interpolated value.

The syntax with square-brackets before the interpolated value is
cleaner.

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