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		orf 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf] FYI that code sample is broken, it should be `(int(many()),)` Ironic I guess?

lifthrasiir 8 months ago [–]

It's not broken (try it!). Any value is interpreted as an implicit 1-tuple if it's not a tuple nor a dict. A better example would have been `"..." % many()` where `many` returns a tuple or dict.

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