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by zamadatix 2252 days ago
To be honest typing and remembering %d %f %c %s etc. seems like more hassle than typing {} and typing it for every case.

I think the real gotchas are that { is escaped as {{ and } as }} instead of \{ and \} (though it does follow from the old %%) and you must either include , .{} or rewrite the function call to something significantly different to do unformatted print.