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Smithalicious ◴[] No.43750764[source]
I really was on the side of being generally willing to accept new python features, but this is getting ridiculous. What an utterly pointless thing to bloat the language with. At this point my moving to clojure as my first line language of choice is only accelerating.

This is of the category "things I wouldn't want to use even for the specific hyper niche things they're intended for". What even does a "t-string" represent? Because it's clearly not a string of any kind, it's a weird kind of function call notation. The programmer sees something that looks like string formatting, but the program executes some arbitrary procedure that might not return a string whatsoever.

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sanderjd ◴[] No.43751503[source]
The "bloat" is that you can now put the letter "t" in front of a string, rather than "f" or "r"?
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1. kccqzy ◴[] No.43752948[source]
I'm not the OP but I'm guessing with OP moving to Clojure that the bloat is basically any special syntax or special language feature that basically boils down to a function call or a let statement. A lot of functional programming languages have minimalistic expression syntax and they are just as expressive as OP needs them to be.