sonatype/nexus — comment on commit ed6eeab723c1a88a411dc1820c9f31a590253a5f
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By peterlynch:

downside is that typos blow up with a variety of exceptions, StringBuilder silently keeps going..

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#format(java.lang.String, java.lang.Object...)

would rather see use of a format helper which does the same thing but which won't throw exceptions all over the place if typo.
Something like what logback uses natively

http://logback.qos.ch/manual/architecture.html#ParametrizedLogging