Re: RFC: String interpolation

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Is there a reason why people are writing (funcall '+ 3.42423 4)
  > > rather than (+ 3.42423 4)?

  > Yes.  It's a long form that everybody knows the meaning of, and that
  > looks awkward when you put it into a format string.

Some forms of code look good with short forms and bad with long ones.
Looking at them with long forms makes them look bad, but they might
be useful anyway.

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