* Re: [Caml-list] positional specifiers in format strings [not found] <20070524131457.916E9BC77@yquem.inria.fr> @ 2007-05-24 13:28 ` David Allsopp 2007-05-25 7:36 ` Hendrik Tews 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: David Allsopp @ 2007-05-24 13:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: caml-list > 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$f'' Positional specifiers aren't new and, sadly, neither's the bug - http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4204 I just love having to pass the same parameter 5 times to printf just because it's used in 5 different places in the format string!! David ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [Caml-list] positional specifiers in format strings 2007-05-24 13:28 ` [Caml-list] positional specifiers in format strings David Allsopp @ 2007-05-25 7:36 ` Hendrik Tews 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Hendrik Tews @ 2007-05-25 7:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: caml-list "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com> writes: > Objective Caml version 3.10.0 > > # Printf.printf "%5$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 That's another point where the txt and html documentations diverge: positional specifiers are only in the 3.09 html documentation, but not in the txt version. That's why they got classified as new. Hendrik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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