From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc string of `format' - FLAGS unexplained
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:27:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jebq647h1o.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6f0wrxe.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon\, 25 Feb 2008 18\:13\:33 -0500")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> In particular, the statement "flags is [-+ #0]+" is misleading; it
> should be [+ #]+, since the - and 0 characters are actually used to
> identify the width specifier instead.
This is wrong. '-' and '0' are real flags that can be freely mixed with
other flags, eg. "%0#10d" is valid and the same as "%#010d". They are
never considered part of the width.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 0:42 doc string of `format' - FLAGS unexplained Drew Adams
2008-02-25 23:13 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-25 23:27 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-02-26 0:23 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-26 12:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-26 16:33 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-26 0:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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