On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Marco Behnke <marco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Or use printf which is much more readable. > Are you serious about this? How would printf make things more readable? Given a string with some %s %d etc in it, and then at the end you're giving the stuff that replaces them. I fail to see how that improves readability when you can put the variables in the string at exactly the place they are printed, so the final string can be read as a somewhat normal text.