Re: Glib->log() and %-style format strings

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

Kevin Ryde wrote:
> "muppet" <scott asofyet org> writes:
> > I don't think that g_log() provides any formatting features that perl doesn't
> > already trump.
>
> I suppose automatically putting args through perl's sprintf could be
> cute, to make it look more like g_log().  Though if it's always meant to
> have been a fixed string then that's probably incompatible.

Yeah, that would be handy.  We do this in Gtk2::MessageDialog.  But it would be 
an incompatible change now unless we heuristically determine whether to use 
interpolation or not by looking at the number of arguments.  I don't think it's 
worth it.