Hello
2012/12/31 Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net>:
> Pavel,
>
> * Pavel Stehule (pavel.steh...@gmail.com) wrote:
>> A result from ours previous talk was a completely disabling mixing
>> positional and ordered placeholders - like is requested by man and gcc
>> raises warnings there.
>>
>> But mixing is not explicitly disallowed in doc, and mixing was tested
>> in our regress tests. There are tests where placeholders are mixed -
>> so anybody can use it.
>> select format('Hello %s %1$s %s', 'World', 'Hello again'); -- is
>> enabled and supported and result is expected
>
> Alright, then I agree that raising a warning in that case makes sense
> and let's update the docs to reflect that it shouldn't be done (like
> what glibc/gcc do).so there are two patches - first is fix in logic when positional and ordered parameters are mixed + add warning in this situation. Second patch enables possibility to specify width for %s conversion. I didn't finalize documentation due my net good English skills - probably there is necessary new paragraph about function "format" elsewhere than in table Regards Pavel > > Thanks, > > Stephen
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