RFR: 7903727: Remove the reliance on String Templates feature [v2]

[Jorn Vernee]

On Mon, 20 May 2024 10:13:53 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> we could use a different way to format messages, more similar to MessageFormat where arguments have indices that can be used in the format message (so they can be repeated, reordered, etc.).

`String.format` also supports referencing arguments by index, e.g. `String.format("%2$s %1$s", "A", "B")` would produce `"B A"`, and the same argument can be referenced multiple times as well. I suggest we use that for the longer text blocks with multiple embedded values.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jextract/pull/244#issuecomment-2120827040