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Re: "The Go language does this very nicely." ?

Value insertion, not concatenation, is how you format text that will be read by a human.

Yes, well...

English is OK if you have 3 cases for none, 1 or plural.

But take Slavic languages:

1 rubl'

2 rublya

3 rublya

4 rublya

5-20 rublei

21 rubl'

1 god

2 goda

5 lyet

You need a whole code block to decide how to format a currency, date or a time ahead of selecting the proper sentence. And I am sure there are other language groups out there that are worse.