Guido> Alex said roughly the same thing: let's not add $ while keeping
Guido> %.
Then let's not add $ at all. ;-)
Seriously, I'm not keen on having to modify all my %-formatted strings for
something I perceive as a negligible improvement. I've seen nothing to
suggest that any $-format proposals I've read were knock-my-socks-off better
than the current %-format implementation.
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