On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:55:14 +0100, Stewart Gordon <[email protected]>
wrote:
There are several bug reports along the lines of std.stdio.writef* and
std.string.format and stream writef* functions behaving inconsistently
with each other.
So far I've found:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4532
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5687
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6595
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7571
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7620
Really, they're all one bug, namely the use of two divergent functions
that have the same purpose: doFormat and formattedWrite.
Under D1, we had only doFormat. In D2, formattedWrite has superseded
doFormat; nonetheless, some bits of Phobos are still using doFormat.
6595 is "std.string.format() and sformat() are obsolete". It seems to
be advocating killing doFormat once and for all. However, the pull
request doesn't go anywhere near this far, and there is even a call to
doFormat in the unchanged lines of the pull. Really, it only makes sense
to get the migration from doFormat to formattedWrite finished once and
for all.
But meanwhile, what to do with these duplicate bug reports? Change the
summary 4532 to reflect the true nature of the problem and then dupe the
others to it? Or open a new bug report that is straight and to the
point about it, and dupe those to it? Or list the old bugs as
dependencies rather than dupes of the new root cause bug?
(Example from years ago of manifestations of a bug being done as
dependencies:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57724
)
I'd say change 4532.
