From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] positional specifiers in format strings
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:28:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c79e07$6d375150$6a7ba8c0@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524131457.916E9BC77@yquem.inria.fr>
> Objective Caml version 3.10.0
>
> # Printf.printf "%5$f";;
> Bad conversion %$, at char number 0 in format string ``%5$f''
> # Printf.printf "%.*3$f";;
> Bad conversion %3, at char number 0 in format string ``%.*3$f''
Positional specifiers aren't new and, sadly, neither's the bug -
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4204
I just love having to pass the same parameter 5 times to printf just because
it's used in 5 different places in the format string!!
David
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 13:28 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20070524131457.916E9BC77@yquem.inria.fr>
2007-05-24 13:28 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2007-05-25 7:36 ` Hendrik Tews
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