Excerpts from Itagaki Takahiro's message of mié oct 13 23:03:16 -0300 2010:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >> [ updated patch, in response to a review from Itagaki Takahiro ]
> >
> > This patch appears to be waiting for a second round of review.
> > Itagaki-san, are you planning to do that?
> 
> I can, but I was waiting for other people's comments about the design:
>   - format() in core, that implements %s, %i, and %l.
>   - substitute() for $n format and sprintf() that partially implements
>     the same function in C in contrib/stringfunc.
> 
> I don't like having three similar functions for the same purpose,
> but Pavel said they are the best solutions. What will be our consensus?

I don't have much love for moving the position stuff ($n) out of the main
function either.  I've been meaning to take a look at how hard it would
be to integrate that into format() in core -- no luck :-(

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