Re: string function - "format" function proposal

2010/9/6 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> * %v also doesn't quote boolean values, but t and f are not valid.
>>>  You should use true and false (or 't' and 'f') for the cases.
>>
>> you have a true - it should be fixed
>
> I found quote_literal() prints boolean values as 'true' or 'false'.
> It uses casting to text type rather than calling output function.
> OTOH, format functions (and concat funcs) use output functions.
>
> Which should we use for such purposes? Consistent behavior is
> obviously preferred. Boolean type might be the only type that
> is converted to different representation in typoutput or cast-to-test,
> but we should consider to have boolean-specific hardwired code,
> or cast all types to text instead of output functions.

Personally I prefer casting to text - it allows some later
customizations. And it's more consistent with || operator. So the
functions concat* should to be fixed.

Regards

Pavel

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