fair point. basically this is ported from a java ...
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jcogilvie
10/06/2017, 4:05 PMfair point. basically this is ported from a java String.format() call, which is more efficient than string literal concats iirc, so I guess I'm still trying to avoid the latter. not sure if kt improves java in that regard?
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hho
10/06/2017, 4:08 PMAFAIK String literal concats are compiled (in Java) to
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jcogilvie
10/06/2017, 4:12 PMwell, I guess I've been thinking in C all these years. concat is much faster than string format. TIL.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/925423/is-it-better-practice-to-use-string-format-over-string-concatenation-in-java/925444#925444
and string format is largely preferred for localization.