[julia-users] Re: sprintf bug (or my confusion)

2014-06-21 Thread Sam L
If I understand correctly, the @printf and @sprintf macros generate code based on the a string literal that is passed as the first argument. You cannot pass a variable who's value is a format string to those macros because the value would not be known when the macro is called and the code is

[julia-users] Re: sprintf bug (or my confusion)

2014-06-20 Thread Dustin Lee
Also this is 0.3 On Friday, June 20, 2014 3:15:22 PM UTC-6, Dustin Lee wrote: If run the following two lines: format = %d @sprintf format 33 I get the message: ERROR: @sprintf: first argument must be a format string If I run what I would have thought of as equivalent @sprintf %d 33