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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Continuations
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:39:35 -0000 (UTC)
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Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:
> There are two separate issues here.  One is whether modern languages
> should have syntax for esily formatting numbers that is "more
> expressive" than what things like printf currently provide.

Take a look at what Fortran can do, it does quite a few things
(and is correspondingly difficult to implement :-)