From: redstun <redstun@...>
Date: 2010-12-15T14:22:42+09:00
Subject: String.populate(data) for sprintf?

This idea came up in my mind last night.

As what Kernel::format(format_string, *arguments) is populating the
format string with the data provided by *arguments, isn't it natural
for a String object (namely the format_string) to receive the
'populate' message with the data?

Maybe String.populate_with is better in terms of grammar correctness,
but I thing populate is fine.

A bones question, if you once was a Java developer, do you still
remember Java's version of sprintf? Maybe this help make more sense of
String.populate()