# Type-erased delayed string formatting

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**Created:** [November 26, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/type-erased-delayed-string-formatting/13230 "2025-11-26T17:21:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/type-erased-delayed-string-formatting/13230/3 "2025-11-26T18:17:55Z")

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Another way to do it would be an alternative to `std.Io.Writer.print` that still has comptime format string, and still takes a tuple, but is `inline` and lowers to a call to a non-generic, type-erased function.

Since this has identical function signature, it might even make sense to offer this as an application configuration option in the standard library 🤔

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