On 6/26/13 10:35 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
On 27/06/13 14:20, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 01:56:31PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
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While you're fixing it can you modify it so that the format string
can specify the order in which the arguments are replaced? This is
very important for i18n. I apologize if it can already do this but
I was unable to find any documentation of format()'s format string
other than examples with %s at the appropriate places.
[...]
You can use positional arguments for this purpose. For example:
writefln("%2$s %1$s", "a", "b");
outputs "b a".
Yes, I eventually found the documentation in std.format while I expected
it to be in std.string along with the documentation the format()
function. A reference to std.format in the documentation for format()
(in std.string) would be nice.
The only point I'd negotiate would be to not throw with positional
arguments, and throw with sequential arguments. All code that cares uses
positional specifiers anyway.
Andrei
