The problem people have with the format implementation is that no matter what you do, it's either obtuse shorthand, or incredibly verbose.
The reality is, that NSString needs native formatting sugar. Anything else would really just be a hack. I'm not particularly even happy with the [@"Hello ":@"World] syntax, either.
I'm not super comfortable with breaking message syntax like that. Also, very wary of using a #define with a short oft used keyword in a library that will be imported in majority of headers.
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Why not just have it be a static method like stringWithFormat?
This of course already exists, but if you wanted to do a Rubyfied version of it, then just follow the same general pattern.The problem people have with the format implementation is that no matter what you do, it's either obtuse shorthand, or incredibly verbose.
The reality is, that NSString needs native formatting sugar. Anything else would really just be a hack. I'm not particularly even happy with the [@"Hello ":@"World] syntax, either.
Exactly I just want this:
Here's a crazy idea:
Implement it as a method that takes a dummy parameter, plus a macro: Awful way to do it, but the resulting syntax is not entirely terrible.I'm not super comfortable with breaking message syntax like that. Also, very wary of using a #define with a short oft used keyword in a library that will be imported in majority of headers.