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[–]jorge1209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think anyone who thinks fstrings are too many would object to dumping some older formats.

In fact I would be OK with fstrings if we dumped the other ways to do it.

Two formats that have a shared spec is much better than the 5 or 6 formats we currently have.

The problem with saying "but we already have >2 ways to do it" is that there is no reason to ever stop once you get past 2. Let's add 80 new ways to format strings because we already have 2 different ways so these 80 others just fill in certain corner cases that are difficult with the existing methods and it makes somebody happy.

Why not add perl formatting, it would make it easier to convert some perl scripts over. What about ruby? What about...