Re: string function - "format" function proposal

2010/10/15 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> then maybe %ls or %is - like "literal string" or "ident string".
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> Yeah, good idea!
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>> I don't think so merging sprintf and format can be good. Sprintf is
>> too complex - so long years users don't know specification well and
>> creating some like sprintf function can be messy for users. I like to
>> see accurate sprintf function in contrib - and some else in core.
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> I agree that full-spec sprintf is too complex, but precision and
> zero-full for numeric types are commonly used. I think someone
> will ask us "Why don't have numeric formats though we have %s?".

And the reply is - we have function to_char. I don't see any reason
why we have to have two independent formatting systems.

Pavel


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